Well, my three month working at home period is up Friday and I've been looking for a job out here. Lots of opportunities, but lots of competition too. I have about 4 years experience with most of the following: SQL Server, ASP, Vbscript, vb6, vb.net, .Net, DTS, Replication, cold fusion, and more. If anyone has any leads for a web developer or similar field, please let me know.

Thanks,
Rich

 

have you gone to a temp agency? a lot of corporate companies including mine only hire contractors that way. The reason I say contractor because most company are not hiring regular full-time at all. but they still hire contractors. good luck

 

Yeah, I used to work for Robert Half International and I've been in contact with them already. They have a few leads, but I want more options. I've also contacted MacArthur associates about a few leads too. The people at the agencies rarely call back after leaving voice mail, so I have to be really persistant. I don't like being without a job and I want to get more stuff for my car too.

 

I would suggest looking out of state. I have noticed (after 6 months unumployment) that the rates as a contractor are significantly lower in the bay area (by as much as $15/hour!!! ) than the rest of the country.

That along with the cost of living.... sigh, as much I hate to admit it, but it looks like it's time to move on. bummer too, because I really like it here.

 

hmm... Really? The couple of jobs I've been looking at were about 10-20K bumps in pay from what I was making in Wisconsin. I actually just moved here 3 months ago, so I'm not going to give up yet.

 

i'm in a similar situation. i got laid off last tuesday, and i'm now looking for employment again after three and a half years with the same company. however, there isn't much out there right now, i checked monster, dice and a couple of others and there are maybe a dozen positions for UNIX admins in the whole bay area. i swear, it's like the only people they're hiring are sales guys...

 

my company only use kelly temp. give that a try?

 

That's one reason I won't live in WI.

try looking in socal, NY city area, Chicago, seattle, etc... hell, even delaware

then factor in the cost of living...

 

http://rentacoder.com/RentACoder/default.asp

 

Seems interesting, have you had success with the site?

 

Ha! That's great. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who has used this as well. I'm a newly unemployed software engineer, although I like to think of it as "summer vacation". I may lose that smile as time goes on though...

 

So what are you going to do until you find a job?

 

Forget Chicago -- we came out here a year ago fleeing Chicago. My wife's company was (still is) having layoffs every quarter, and between Lucent and Motorola both going almost belly up and laying off thousands, there are lots of people looking and almost no one hiring.

It's not great out here either, we came because I had a job offer and my wife was lucky enough to find something after a few months.

Good luck, and I hope you manage to stay out here.

 

www.dice.com might be a good place to search. Also, you may want to consider looking at a different type of job -- it seems web jobs just aren't out there anymore.

 

Indirecked -- Don't know yet hopefully I won't have to gon on unemployment for very long.

GR8-WRX -- I'm actually finding jobs daily for web developers on dice and monster. A lot want Java though, but I have a couple of leads already. I'll see how it goes.