Re: Ecommerce story and other activities

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 > From: Peter V <http://www.yahoo.com/~peterhv>
 > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:23:42 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > Hi Robert,
 >  
 > Thought this site might be interesting / amusing.

Thanks.

 > Have been busy in last 
 > month mostly with outside stuff, i.e., have been getting paid for gardening / 
 > landscaping work and have been involved in more sports and music oriented 
 > social activities now that summer is really here.

Well, it was here for about 2 weeks.  It seems to be gone again. :-(

 > Will try and visit JSNG 
 > group sometime this month.  Have called to sign up a few times recently and 
 > always filled but will try again later. 
 >  
 > Did look at job listings from 3 Job sites to try and determine if getting 
 > certified in new areas was justified, but think I need to check out 10 biggest 
 > ones to get 40-50% of all openings to form a good picture of the actual 
 > demand.  Red Hat security was pretty low in NE, Windows 2000 was strong all 
 > over,

Yeah.  Microsoft ones seem to be all over the place.  Same with Sun
Solaris.  But the RedHat ones are not too popular.

 > but think one would need to add a specially to it, and have related 
 > experience. 
 >  
 > P.V.  

Basically, I think most companies have stopped advertising for jobs at all
except for those really-impossible-to-find jobs.  It seems that the only
way to get positions is to know someone in the company since positions are
only "advertised" internally.  I've been interviewing (via phone) with
Peoplesoft simply 'cause I know someone there.  And someone else is trying
to get me into Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories.  It's really disgusting
that it has to be this way, frankly.  Life will be happier when people
start investing in technology again.