[thelist] Job Opps in the US? An informal survey.

[April]

I know how that one goes.  I was in the same position for a while.

Has your tech background on your resume been a liability to you?

When I got desperate, I started looking for secretarial stuff, and kept 
getting turned down because they didn't think I'd "fit in" or I would "get 
bored".  And this before an interview-- sheerly based on the fact that my 
last job had been as a web designer.  I ended up rewriting my work history 
from Associate Web Designer, to Assistant Content Editor, and playing my 
design and project management experience off as adding commas to webpage 
text.  Then I got a few leads.

Anyway, just wondering if it's like that elsewhere, or if it's just an 
Austin thing.


At 02:33 PM 12/7/2001 -0800, Sarah Heffron wrote:
>I moved to California (San Jose to be exact) more than 3 months ago and I
>still haven't found a job. I'm even having tough luck with retail stores
>(Toys R Us etc.) hiring for seasonal help. The job market here is quite
>depressing and it's making me quite depressed, but I have no money to move
>elsewhere now. I could note that if in anyone in the bay area has any
>connections for webdev work, please send them my way.
>
>Sarah
>