Anything in development that doesn't require dealing with customers (which I am inept at) or speaking French (which is a common requirement here).
I will happily code in Java, C, C++, perl or learn something new, but everyone I see wants me to have recent experience in whatever tiny subdomain they are working in. I find it very frustrating.
Would I be wrong in assuming that the cause of your depression is brought on by the lack of employment which goes in hand with lack of money?
Being unemployed is emotionally draining! The longer the unemployment, the worse you feel. I freelance which doesn't allow me much money to play with at all, so if you want to get technical then you can say that I am unemployed, so I know how you feel. =)
My remedy for beating the blues is to keep at it and learn as you go along the way. If you are getting rejected by a certain group of jobs, then rethink the type of job you're applying for! I'm not sure about your location, but there are definitely places out here that help people to work on the things that may be pigeon holing you into one type of work category.
Onto something positive, how's the Atkin's weight-loss going? =)
One thing I've found to be a bonus skill in the past years is being able to do different kinds of sysadmining. In my current job our production servers are purely Linux and Sun machines and you'd be surprised at the number of engineers and "datamaticians" (read: short term programmer/developer/computer guy education) who have written *NIX off as being old and Linux off as being "just a toy".
If we take a look at a slightly less noble part of my personality we find that I've also gotten far by promoting my skills at the expense of others'. I took a piece of advice from a friend who told me that I tended to be a bit to "feminine" when it came to trusting my own abilities. She basically told me to brag rather than be modest. From my experiences at job interviews it looks like the company will also be bragging about how well ordered they are and so on... and in the timespan between the first job interview and the actual hiring you will have more than enough time to touch up on those skills that have become a bit rusty.
I know it's a sneaky and not very honest way of doing things, but if you know you can do the job well then I say that for the sake of ourselves the end justities the means...
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Date: 2004-11-29 09:24 am (UTC)Life in general or something specific like the whole crappy job thing?
(Or maybe I've totally missed something in the last week while being a bit away)
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Date: 2004-11-29 10:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-29 10:56 am (UTC)What types of jobs are you looking for?
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Date: 2004-11-29 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-29 03:37 pm (UTC)I will happily code in Java, C, C++, perl or learn something new, but everyone I see wants me to have recent experience in whatever tiny subdomain they are working in. I find it very frustrating.
My 2¢!
Being unemployed is emotionally draining! The longer the unemployment, the worse you feel. I freelance which doesn't allow me much money to play with at all, so if you want to get technical then you can say that I am unemployed, so I know how you feel. =)
My remedy for beating the blues is to keep at it and learn as you go along the way. If you are getting rejected by a certain group of jobs, then rethink the type of job you're applying for! I'm not sure about your location, but there are definitely places out here that help people to work on the things that may be pigeon holing you into one type of work category.
Onto something positive, how's the Atkin's weight-loss going? =)
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Date: 2004-11-30 01:11 pm (UTC)If we take a look at a slightly less noble part of my personality we find that I've also gotten far by promoting my skills at the expense of others'. I took a piece of advice from a friend who told me that I tended to be a bit to "feminine" when it came to trusting my own abilities. She basically told me to brag rather than be modest. From my experiences at job interviews it looks like the company will also be bragging about how well ordered they are and so on... and in the timespan between the first job interview and the actual hiring you will have more than enough time to touch up on those skills that have become a bit rusty.
I know it's a sneaky and not very honest way of doing things, but if you know you can do the job well then I say that for the sake of ourselves the end justities the means...