Posted by Racer on October 17, 2000, at 16:56:28
In reply to Racer?, posted by Greg on October 17, 2000, at 8:52:21
> Was wondering if you've heard anything back from my company yet? If not, I'd like to follow up and see if I can get a status.Nothing from them yet. It would be wonderful if you could look into it, since I'm not much farther along than I was when we spoke.
This area is weird about jobs, in that the employers say they are screaming for qualified applicants, but then ask for unreasonable things. I just say an opening yesterday for a Mac network admin with (get this!) graphic design and page layout skills. I know they exist, but looking for one person to do both jobs is a little unrealistic, don't you think? Or the other one a recruiter told me about: the job is updating the content on a corporate web site. The qualifications? Java, the language, not the script; perl; HTML; and emacs. Now the recruiter was a bit dim, kept talking about emacs as though it was a separate and distinct program along the lines of QuarkXpress or something. I kept saying "it's a text editor, like Windows Notepad, but for UNIX systems. I don't use it, I use vi, but I'm familiar with it." I even gave him a quick and dirty explanation: all UNIX systems have vi, but many have other editors, like emacs, less, pico, etc. He just kept hitting on, "But you don't have the emacs skills they're looking for" Wouldn't consider presenting me. Then, I saw the same job listed through another recruiter, only this time they're only looking for HTML and enough familiarity with cgi and Java that the candidate won't screw up the working of the pages. Apparently the recruiter wasn't passing on enough qualified applicants, because he was so confused about what they wanted!
Then there are the managers who want someone overqualified, both because it makes him/her look better to have higher qualified staff and because he/she doesn't know enough about the technology to figure out who is actually qualified! That sort make me grind my teeth.
Enough grumbling. I'll hope you discover something nice for me.
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> I hope you are doing well.Actually, I'm falling into a slump right now. Depressed, gloomy, overwhelmed, the whole nine yards. Even scared my SO over the weekend, he'd never seen me like that before. I even raised my voice toward him. Something very, very rare for me.
It feels as though I'm living in Limbo, or Purgatory right now. I know this isn't Hell, because in Hell, I don't get dressed, or even out of bed, every day. I'm dressing every day, but barely. And I am trying to create a portfolio web site to show my skills, but right now I have no imagination to work from. Well, I have the basic design down, but none of the graphics. Graphics are always the hardest part for me, since I really don't have much visual imagination. Which probably explains my wardrobe...
Thanks for asking about me, Greg. I'm so low right now that it pulls me up just to know that I'm not invisible. You are generous.
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> Greg
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