re: #327 oaktree

IT in Denver has tanked, at least as far I I’m concerned. A lot of it moved north and south, north to Boulder/Longmont and south to Colorado Springs. Both those area are considered more “rural” more country-like, and that is the attraction.

In the last almost 6 years, I had one full time job, for two years (2008-2009) at the live theatre, and of course, that was a fallback career for me. I don’t consider my acting, production skills and playwriting as my primary career.

All my other jobs were sort term contract programming jobs. And except for holding on to the Kaiser work, I haven’t been able to pop any short term contracting stuff.

Three, four years ago, an email from Monster or Dice would have 15-20 jobs a day listed, now, I get one or two a week, and there is usually 1-2 jobs listed, and not even well matched for my skill set.

Things change, always do, I’m know this is nothing new, just new for us. Our parent and ancestors have had to deal with the changing world in the past, we’ll all make it too.