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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1051647" data-attributes="member: 945">Ok, here's the deal.  Wife and I were discussing our current situation.  The company I work for a (one of the big three telecommunications companies) has undergone massize reorganization, and layoffs.  In the midst of this environment, I have managed to survive, but the local economy has suffered greatly as a result.  I work in IT, and IT ain't what it used to be in terms of the job market.  Given that, while I am still gainfully employed, the situation is all but intolerable.  Either I will be laid off eventually (along with probably hundreds of others) or they will move me around like some unwilling pawn, and possibly even lower my salary in the process (it's certainly within their rights to do so).  At one time, I was supposed to receive a promotion, but it fell through because of the current situation here, and now I'm stuck where I am, probably indefinitely.  What's worse, is I have a brand new manager who seems to hate me (because I worked for a different division than what she worked for - she seems to hate all of us from our division), so whatever rapport I had built up with my previous manager is completely gone.I've sent out a half-dozen resumes to positions within the Kansas City area, and have gotten no response.  It's such a cold prospect anyway, just sending out blind resumes.  I have a couple of good leads, but both positions, if they pan out, would yield a salary less than my current one, and both would likely be steps backwards career-wise.  That is, I want to move up into management, and systems analysis, and both of these are probably just programming positions.  In both cases, I have friends on the inside working for me, but even if I got either job, one would likely pay $9k less, and the other maybe as much as $12-15k less.  Not good.  I want to grow my career, not "settle".So, the wife and I decided that it would be a good idea to just start sending out resumes all over the place.  I found some possible positions in Minneapolis/St. Paul (working for Target's HQ), and thought that might be a good fit since I used to work for Wal-Mart HQ, my experience would be a good match there.  Problem is that I know absolutely nothing about that area, and was just curious what kind of insight anyone here could give me on it.This is all still tentative, and exploratory at this point.  I felt like the smart thing to do would be to get out while the getting is still good, and before I lost my job altogether.  We'd have to sell the house, but our daughter is still an infant, and has no ties to school or anything.  Alternatively, if anyone knows of any areas where the IT job market is still quite strong, I'd like to hear about that.  It seems fairly bleak from where I'm sitting.Thanks</blockquote>

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