No, not ME. I’m gainfully employed well into 2013 with Dragonbreath, now that they bought ten books. I am not, however, much of a Primary Breadwinner—kid’s book money will keep a single female and her cats well-heeled, but breaks down when confronted with a partner and a mortgage.
So Kevin got laid off last month, and the job hunt is in full force. So hey, if you’re in the Triangle and hunting for a Linux sys-admin with various and sundry skills then drop him a line. (I would say more about the various and sundry skills, but it turns into alphabet soup pretty quickly as far as I’m concerned…IP VPN MySQL RPM PHP IA CTHULHU FTAGHN ETC.)
Originally published at Tea with the Squash God. You can comment here or there.
Someone I know in the DC area posted about a job opening just recently that looked like alphabet soup as far as I could tell. But that's too far from you guys.
The mix of fear/apathy/guilt/frustration in this situation has been a daily test on our relationship. The job loss is clearly not my partner's fault, yet the deeper in debt you go, the more "stuck" you start to feel with this partner -- and it just gets worse from there.
I've even caught myself making demands of her time that I normally wouldn't ask since she is technically "on my tab". She's always been grateful, but the subconscious desire to demand more in gratitude gets pretty powerful (and I'm not talking sexual favors, just... shows of respect for generosity given).
It's just a trial. Waiting for the situation to change so my partner can start paying me back. I have all faith she will... but still, the fears remain and grow with each look at my bills.
Best of luck to you and Kevin.
LinkedIn
it makes you look well connected.
i, look excellenet despite being nearly computer illiterate.. i got a few (bad) job offers owing the high level programming friends i have
Job hunting...
They said, "Why are you going for the IT support specialist track? Your grades were the second highest in the Cisco networking class! You could be a system administrator!"
Right. All you laid-off system administrators raise your hands...
Competing for the good jobs doesn't work when there aren't any good jobs.
I'll take the IT janitor position and I'll be happy with it.
Re: Job hunting...
No other tips to offer, I'm afraid. Best of luck!
Although the market here is creating very few jobs in my space - a LOT of it is shuffle, unless you happen to have a particular Redmond-based set of skills which I lack.