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time to ask again... how is the job market or econamy to you?
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 25, 2011, 04:22:37 pm ---I appreciate your situation, but there must be other avenues you can explore, with the skills you have.
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If you believe that then you don't appreciate his situation.
The jobs that require the least skills (and pay) are the only jobs available.
I've got a good job, but I'm not going to kid myself into thinking it's secure.
My company just took over for a bigger company. I've been looking through their raw files and it's really basic stuff. I know the people that worked for that company were being paid twice as much has me, I can't believe they were getting paid so much for so little quality. It's opened my eyes. I'm not an elite programmer and there are lots of better programmers who have been out of work for a while and they're pretty desperate right about now.
If I lost my job today, my best bet would be waiting tables and even then I'd have trouble getting hired.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 25, 2011, 05:20:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on February 25, 2011, 04:22:37 pm ---I appreciate your situation, but there must be other avenues you can explore, with the skills you have.
--- End quote ---
If you believe that then you don't appreciate his situation.
The jobs that require the least skills (and pay) are the only jobs available.
I've got a good job, but I'm not going to kid myself into thinking it's secure.
My company just took over for a bigger company. I've been looking through their raw files and it's really basic stuff. I know the people that worked for that company were being paid twice as much has me, I can't believe they were getting paid so much for so little quality. It's opened my eyes. I'm not an elite programmer and there are lots of better programmers who have been out of work for a while and they're pretty desperate right about now.
If I lost my job today, my best bet would be waiting tables and even then I'd have trouble getting hired.
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I would look at other avenues too. The adult industry is booming so is the gaming sector.
I know it isn't ideal, but beggars cannot be choosers.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 25, 2011, 09:58:03 am ---Oklahoma City isn't nearly the same magnitude as Houston, dude. Seriously.
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I'm there all the time. I know it isn't even close.
Thing is, I live in a ONE TRAFFIC LIGHT town with a population of 1,516. Crazy enough, I actually like it.
I just do not like big (hell, medium sized) city life at all.
shateredsoul:
I'm working on my phd and taking my sweet time.. hoping that the job market will be better when I finish.
still...
-tuition is going up (i'm at a public uni in California)
-TA positions are going to get cut back (a lot of us get our funding from TAships, they pay our tuition and give us about 18k to live off for the year)
-Jobs in academia are scarce
-Some are trying to get rid of tenure
-I'm drowning in debt (accumulated before phd)
-I think the University of California system is looking at a 500 million dollar cut, maybe I should get out of here as soon as possible
on the upside
- I received a writing grant, that I'm still waiting on since about last June =(
- I got my traveling and hotel expenses covered to go to a conference thanks to the NIH grant I have and an NSF grant my adviser has
- I have a NIH grant that funds my Graduate Student Research position. It also covers my tuition and gives me $$ to live on (less than if I were a TA though) and gives me some money for future academic related costs
- doing some work on the side which pays more than I've ever made in my life, still not much but more than adequate fo rnow
- I might apply to a Microsoft internship to do work with them for a summer
- We have a grant writing class to encourage us to seek more funding
- I get free food for going to presentations and meetings sometimes
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 26, 2011, 12:27:07 pm ---Thing is, I live in a ONE TRAFFIC LIGHT town with a population of 1,516.
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You guys have a stop light ?!? :o
(yeah, we don't)
I live @30 miles outside of OKC and it's perfect for us. We're smack dab in the middle between Shawnee and OKC, so either direction is not too far for work, college, shopping, etc. But when I go home...it's the hell a way from the "city".
As for the "economy"..... not much has changed really, prices for everything goes up, wages stay the same, what's new about any of that? (aside from the rate hikes coming faster)
Seems like when companies feel the economic crunch their solution is to raise their prices for everything..... uh....that doesn't work out so well in the long run if people can't afford it to begin with.
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