Re: 94!

interesting.  i'm seeing my only chance of making a good living with 
Perl as moving -to- the Bay Area, or another city that has good Perl jobs.

i live in Johnson City, TN.  i was able to make a living doing Perl from 
1997 - 2002, and perhaps half a living in 2003, and may be able to 
resume making a living in this area shortly.

but i've found that although there are indeed tons of good-looking job 
postings lately, it's been nearly impossible for me to get interest from 
HR directors who staff those jobs, because i live so far away from the 
jobs' cities.

in one particular case, i thought i was going to get a high-profile and 
very-well-paying job in Silicon Valley.  during and after a phone 
interview for the job, i was told that hundreds of people had applied 
for it, that i was in the final group (something like that; the top ten 
people), and that i could expect a plane trip out for the face interview.

after a call from the HR director saying that i would be getting an 
email with a schedule of a few more phone interviews, i didn't hear 
anything for a couple of weeks.  i emailed the person who had originally 
interviewed me to ask what was up.  they said that while i was 
qualified, the company had decided to focus only on local candidates, 
because there were so many of them.

i firmly believe that if i lived in the Bay Area, i would have gotten 
that job.

i've pretty much decided that if i want a job posted to this list, i 
need to find a way to move to CA or the DC/Boston corridor and -then- 
apply.  i wonder if that's accurate.  has anyone else here lived in a 
non-top-50 metro area in the US, and found a well-paying Perl job?

(i'm also getting more-than-annoyed at hirers who say they're going to 
contact me "in a few days" or "in a week" and don't.  but i guess that's 
part of the game.)

-- Steve

Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
> Or move out of the bay area....
> 
> Anthony Ettinger wrote:
> 
>> That's my biggest problem.
>>
>> I'm on a single income, I get paid well now, and could
>> afford mortgage payments a house in the south bay area
>> (although it would take most of the income). But I'm
>> afraid if I loose a job, I will not be able to find
>> one in IT locally that pays as well.
>>
>> The last few years, I've worked at 3 jobs, one high
>> paying job during the boom, then about 44% of that
>> during the bust. Now I make 117%  of my original
>> dotcom salary. If I loose my job tomorrow, who knows
>> what the heck I'll be making at the next job.
>>
>> My dad worked for IBM for 26 years, talk about job
>> security.
>>
>> My only solution is to find a woman who makes roughly
>> the same so we can support each other when one of us
>> it out of work, or to start my own business and
>> hopefully make the same amount of money at it.
>>
>> --- John Von Essen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The scary thing is with the low interest rates, home
>>> values are sky-rocketing, while salaries are staying the same
>>> and even shrinking. In some areas it is becoming very difficult to make
>>> a decent living in IT field - not to mention zero job security.
-- 
Steve Lane <[email protected]>