Tracy;

I remember the job fairs in Silicon Valley in early April 2000. At that job fair (there was one a week) there were over 1000 programming jobs – for Java! There was one job for VB and one for NT 4.0.

Today, you cannot find the VB or NT positions being advertised or job fairs for that matter. They do have job fairs for medical, and clerical staff though.

Should the economy pick up the question will be where IT and programming specifically, will be positioned. The times they are a changing – just like the song said.

Tom


>I'm glad you finally found something Renoir. Isn't it amazing that only 2 years ago there were programming jobs filling up numerous pages in the newspaper! Back then, I was offered every job I applied for, and nowadays there is not a single job available and when there is one, they receive thousands of applications!
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>>James,
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>>I'm surprised you didn't SET BLATENT MARKETING ON and link us to your books. What are they? BTW, I was unemployed all last year and it sucked big time. I had to swing a hammer and do home repair until I finally landed a job about 4 months ago. Basically sold everything we had and started over. Gave me some perspective, but it still sucked.
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>>Renoir
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>>>At least somebody responded!
>>>
>>>Going independent was a huge mistake. I got beat up really bad. Pretty much lost everything. I just finished writing my second novel. I'm peddling it now. I was a journalist in New York and Philadelphia before I fell into computers. The job market is so horrible I'm thinking about a career change. Don't know what to do at this point. I've been unemployed since April when the company I worked for laid-off 300 people. Life kind of sucks sometimes. But I do have one hell of a good book!
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>>>Jim
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>>>>Uh... okay. Literature/poetry was never my best subject, but this message did prompt me to look up some of your past posts. I remember speaking with you at the 2001 DevCon. You had just gone independent, I think. How is that working out? Also, I missed your discussion regarding vaccinations/autism the first time around. How is you son doing now?
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>>>>>Little gutless scrubbing bubbles
>>>>>White washing their world
>>>>>Through toil and trouble
>>>>>Leave no streaks and avoid discord
>>>>>
>>>>>Spinning yarns of social détente
>>>>>Whisk away the dust and dirt
>>>>>Keep the peace through sanitary language
>>>>>Always careful nobody gets hurt
>>>>>
>>>>>Rub-a-dub-dub and away they scrub
>>>>>Their world is plain vanilla
>>>>>Disparaging words are never heard
>>>>>Each one is so carefully censured
>>>>>
>>>>>Little gutless scrubbing bubbles
>>>>>Always scrubbing but never thinking
>>>>>A white-washed world can never redress
>>>>>The very conflicts they are busy cleaning.
>>>>>
>>>>>James M. Weil