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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Poll: Has the job market picked up in your area? 23

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Heya folks, still kinda gloomy down here in the Atl, but how is the market out where you are?

A) It stinketh, like a bloated, dead cow.

B) It's so-so, could be better, but you know how it is.

C) It's definitely picking up. I am seeing more and more actual job listings

D) Never really affected by the post-dot com bust/post-911 world.

E) What do you mean, has it picked back up? We aren't done hitting the bottom bub. I have been out of a job for X days/weeks/months/years/decades/centuries. Why do you ask, are you hiring? No? Piss off, likes-to-fuck-with-my-emotions boy.

F) GMHowell said he'd be my pimp. (Other)

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Poll: Has the job market picked up in your area?

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  • my local economy is still plummeting into the crapper.
  • The big problem with the Detroit area is that it's SOOO cyclically-based on the automotive industry, which is still hurting and won't pick back up *until* everything else does. *sigh*

  • I have the same job that I had before this job-market-sucking business that everyone keeps talking about. I haven't tried looking for a different job. Additionally, I'm in a slightly less volatile industry than you computery folk.
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  • I'm getting actual interviews, on sites and phone. Of course they're all over the place.

    The problem is that the Midwest has been shitty for a long time. Compared to the 50's-60's when it was an industrial center, things have barely gotten better. Big companies have left and never come back. So the 90's were... slightly ok. I guess its that way all over the place (see Sheffield, UK).
  • There are job postings. Unfortunately, they're all filled internally before they are actually posted.

    It's a pain....

  • Definitely. At least in the consulting space.
  • Option "D" fits me most. In fact, I just got a promotion so I feel rather lucky given what I hear from other people (knock on whole forests). It is probably the last I'll ever see of the kind until things turn around for the US as a whole. My buddy just gradumatated with as a EE and he got a rather good job for a military contractor after only a couple weeks out on the pavement. From my vantage point here in the industrial midwest it is business as usual.
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  • I have a job. My job is a good job, and it's in a portion of the software industry that tends to run counter to the economy to a certain extent. But I have friends who have been trying to get jobs for quite a while now in a few places who finally actually do have jobs. One friend in Texas is finally doing web-design again. Another friend in Seattle is back to the billing software thing.

    I keep hearing about jobs here in IL that are good jobs that are being passed around to me for referrals, and I can't
  • In fact, it's so good, I just got a new job with a huge pay rise starting in 4 weeks. And my boss is on holiday so I only have to put up with her for 2 weeks of that. woohoo!
    Now all I have to do is find a car so I can get to the new job...
  • I stopped caring about computer jobs a couple weeks ago.

  • B. (Score:2)

    by arb ( 452787 )
    I got one steady client, and a second who gets me in now and then. (Although the second client hasn't paid me for the last two jobs :-/ ) No sign of any new clients/contracts on the horizon though - not a lot of tenders being advertised around here.
  • A few buddies of mine that got laid off a few weeks ago just found jobs. So, things are looking up. :)

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  • My company is hiring like a madman but the rest of this area appears to be very slowly recovering (of course, I'm not actively looking so I could be completely wrong)
    There are way too many tech people and not enough jobs...

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