Re: 495NSG Technology Sector Unemployment Survey

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

Thanks for all the updates!

I'm surprised that the State Street Bank is really such a poor commute --
isn't it in downtown Boston?

Anyway, again, if you hear of any Unix/Linux jobs, give me a holler!

 > From: Jonathan Beit-Aharon <http://www.jcmigrations.com/~jb>
 > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:14:59 -0800
 >
 > 
 > Hi Robert!
 > 
 > I'm employed these days at State Street Bank (which is neither on State 
 > Street, nor is a Bank :-)  so I don't qualify for this survey.
 > 
 > Unlike links_2_go, the economic downturn entirely quieted our business, so I 
 > absolutely had to get an outside job, and I'm making about 1/3 of what I 
 > was making working independently at JCM (about 3/4 of what I was making at 
 > links_2_go).  It is a long commute, low pay, and work I could do in my sleep, 
 > but it is absolutely better for me mentally, because I was very close to 
 > sinking into serious depression looking for work and not finding it.  I had 
 > only two interviews in the year following the September 11 attack.  Only 
 > now (last week) did we again hear from one of the leads that seemed so hot 
 > back in September 2001.  An inquiry with our s/w maintenance business must 
 > mean the economy is about to turn... unless there's a war.  Having been in 
 > battle, I can only feel sorry for the poor boobs who volunteered to a 
 > peace-time military only to be sent far to endanger their lives for the 
 > sake of Oil-men's wealth.
 > 
 > Well, if America goes for a Bush, we get fire and no heat, which is pretty 
 > awful in a cold winter, just as it was on a cold desert night a few 
 > thousand years ago, and boy do we need god to intervene!
 > 
 > Here we're mostly busy missing my oldest boy, who is away at college, and 
 > encouraging my second boy, who is a sophomore in high school, and hates the 
 > extraneous volume of home-work he is given.  My daughter Miriam is back 
 > with gymnastics after 4 months break, recovering from 3 fractured bones 
 > (she accidentally tilted a 360 pound cement block onto her foot).
 > 
 > Best of luck and lots of patience,
 > Jonathan