[TheForge] Employment at big bucks "was Passing on"

[Andy Vida]

Schade wrote:
> 
> On Aug 24, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Andy Vida wrote:
> 
> >   Can an out of work IT
> >       bum with nothing
> 
> Andy,
> 
> Have you looked at monster.com? I put "IT" into the search field and
> got 100 pages of jobs.

	Most will not hire me becuase I've been around too long.
	Too smart, too experienced, too ethical.  I've been at this
	a LONG time and the picture that has emerged over the past
	three years is a rapidly increasing trend to want kids who
	will work for next to nothing and, more importantly, will
	not open their mouths no matter how stupidly a project is
	being run.  People from my generation are their biggest fear.
	We still believe in doing a job well, and they hate us for it.

	Were I 24 with two years experience in .NET coding, I could
	have a $40K job yesterday.  I have managed $100M projects and
	nobody wants to touch me because of it.  It's tough out there.

	-Andy