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DYNAGOD:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 09, 2004, 11:10:09 am ---Trust me, I've had this discussion with my wife 500x. I hate MA, I hate the way it's run, I don't like it here. I don't like my career. The problem is that my wife wants to stay where her family is... I'm from Canada, and I'd love to go home but there's NO real work there and the whole country is a mess.
We could probably take the equity in our tiny house and buy a larger house in Texas with an 80% downpayment... but she doesn't want to go.
We're not the people who live beyond their means. We take great pains and always have to live minimally... two reliable but economical cars, small house on a main road, no fancy vacations, etc etc. We do that so my wife can stay home with the kids and raise them well rather than keeping them in a daycare like most parents. Hell my wife bought new socks and underpants the other day and kept the receipt in case she wanted her $8 back.
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Im also in massachusetts, and I tried the move to texas thing myself figuring with my income and their cost of living i could live like a god down there... but its one extreme to another... its piss poor cheap to live down there, but there is absolutely no decent work down there. not to mention its polluted as hell and smells (i went to houston),hot like you cant imagine, and its like travelling back in time to 1982.. ..I moved back in 3 months and luckily got my job back here..
so your damned if you do and damned if you dont. Massachusetts is absolutely ridiculous.. up untill 3 months ago i lived in a 3 room studio and i paid 1200.00$ with no utilites!! thats a living room/bedroom ,kitchenette,bathroom (all amenites the same size as in a trailer camper)
a shithole fixer upper house up here starts at about 300k.
the cost of living in this state is just unjustifiably ludicrous.
missioncontrol:
--- Quote ---I have two kids and a mortgage. I'm not thinking about fun and games. I'm thinking about health insurance and making sure my kids don't have to sleep in the station wagon.
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I got laid off 3 yrs ago and was in that same shape. I took the first job I could find and kept on searching for a better one.
I hope you find something soon. best of luck to you on landing an even better job...
GGKoul:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 08, 2004, 07:42:02 pm ---
Dammit. Just worked 70 hours last week to get a software release out the door well and on time... and as soon as I was done, the <auto-censored> laid me off.
I hate everything.
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Hey, I had the same thing happen to me in May/04. I worked with this company for 4 years and I just got back from a 2 week assignment in Australia. First day back in the office, I was told I was part of a 120 employee lay off.
I've had 2 contract assignments in the mean time, but nothing really Full Time. I have a wife, no kids, but I have mortgage & car payments. So I completely understand.
I can only say get your resume out there on the web asap. As that's how I got my 2 contract assignments.
Good Luck and keep your spirts up! Everything happens for a reason.
ChadTower:
Update:
Maybe right place, right time. A good friend of mine got a req approved yesterday doing exactly what I do now, but at a nonmanagement level (I'd prefer to move back down to being an engineer anyway). It's a contract to very likely perm... it's almost 80% certain he can get me in.
shmokes:
Yeah...I've got a great little IT job here in Southern Utah. By the time I graduate with my Informations Systems degree I'll have five years under my belt as the top of the totem pole Network Administrator for a fairly large organization with six offices spread out over five counties. I do ALL of the computer/networking work for every office.
Wanna know what I plan to do with my degree and all that impressive experience when I finish school? Not a damn thing. Cos Paige is right. There's not just a glut of computer workers, networks are becoming self-repairing and pretty much everything can be administered remotely. Don't forget outsourcing.
I decided in Jan. 2003 that, in spite of my great job, the writing is on the wall for computer workers. For this reason I'm double-majoring at school, getting a degree in political science. As soon as I'm done in conservative backwardsland here it's off to law school and the IT industry can kiss my butt. Actually, I figure there's a pretty good chance I'll continue working with IT but as a rich lawyer instead of a grunt that can be used up and laid off.