Re: shattered record

Speaking of jobs, the site is messed up, http://jobs.perl.org returns a
500 error.

-john

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Adam Turoff wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:51:40AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >
> > we haven't even finished the month and we broke the record with 76 jobs
> > posted already this month. and almost all seem real and not any of those
> > $10/hour mccoder jobs. i would like to know if this is the general
> > economy getting better (doesn't feel like it) or the site is just
> > getting better known to more hiring types.
> >
>
> I think the economy is starting to turn around.  I wrote about it in my
> journal (http://use.perl.org/~ziggy/journal/18034), and a few people
> chimed in that things feel like they're heating up again elsewhere.
>
> I wouldn't go so far as to say that the economy is "rosy".
> Just "much less bleak".  ;-)  I'm still seeing oodles of Perl jobs where
> Perl coding is an important ancilliary skill, but just one of many
> part-time skills that employers are looking for.  This is quite unlike
> the jobs for hardcore Perl programmers we saw a few years ago, but even
> those jobs seem to be coming back ever so slowly.
>
> Z.
>
>