Subj : Re: CV, work-history, 91C, CompSci?, Applet? (was: Software Job Ma...)
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Chris Hills
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 03:52 pm

In article <1126271815.642085.307290@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
scott frye <scottf3095@aol.com> writes
>> writing computer software. If this horrible
>>recession ever ends, maybe somebody can help me find a paying job.
>
>It is clear from this thread that Mr. Maas is more interested in
>finding justifications for why he has failed to get a job in the last
>ten years, instead of analyzing what he can change in himself to help
>get a job.
>
>There are two reasons why someone might not be able to get a job for 10
>years.
>
>1.) A long string of bad luck combined with all valid attempts to get a
>job being thwarted by people working hard to interfere with that
>person's attempts.
>2.) There is something the person isn't doing. Something that most of
>the other people in his industry are doing to get a job.
>
>I would suggest that Mr. Maas has been assuming his problem is #1 for
>the last ten years.  After 10 years, the probability of this being the
>case is vanishingly small.  It is time that Mr. Maas accept that #2 is
>the most likely case and it is time to start identifying what he is
>doing wrong and correct those things.

That is what I think we have all been trying to say by offering advice
on things he could do to improve his chances. 


It should have become clear to Mr Mass that most (95%?) of those of us
in this thread hold views that are different to his. The other thing we
all have in common is that we have all (mostly) worked for the last
decade in the computer industry.

Given his behaviour to people who have been trying to help him I would
say it is his attitude and social skills that are the problem not the
technical skills he once had. 

He clearly has, after 22 years in the business, no business contacts or
someone would have given him a contact for some sort of work to get him
going again. It seems ludicrous to me that in an industry that uses
instant world wide communications and easy to find contacts, (Plaxo,
Linkedin, mail lists, news groups etc etc)  he has not made any contacts
who will help him. 

Also he, apparently, has no friends as he knows no one with a PC and a
word processor who could help him with his Cv. I think this is the root
of the problem not his (now some what our of date) technical skills.

Mr Mass, yes, the world is against you. Join the club. It is against all
of us. However, Darwin has given us the key..... adapt. Change with the
times. It is natural selection.

Learn, adapt or stay unemployed.

 

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