re: #453 Walter L. Newton

re: #445 garhighway

But… but… but… the stimulus is working.

Gus… evidently I know exactly what you are talking about, since we reside in the same basic community… and you know what I currently do for a living… it’s far from my career or pass salary range.

And just like you worry about the “seasons” and how you have another “down time” coming up, I worry about being away from my career job market so long (six years now, except for the on/off small private stuff I occasionally do) that I wouldn’t be able to get back into the IT market even if jobs became abundant.

I suspect, except for maybe an increase in doing some private contract work on legacy stuff, I’m permanently out of the day to day IT world.

That’s a fact.

Whatever jobs I have seen have requirements that are almost two pages long. Since there are so many people unemployed they get to be choosy. Another thing I noticed is that the salaries are almost down to rates from the 1980s. I’ve seen some for 12/hour. Heck, I was making a little of 12/hour in 1985 and I was just a greenhorn kid. Age discrimination will also grow with this recession.