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[rone]

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I'm a fucking rockstar.  So why aren't people interested in hiring my fine ass?  Well, i guess i have some holes in my skillset.  But i'm not about to buy a Brocade switch or a Hitachi SAN off eBay so i can improve myself.

I do think that i got soft at Macromedia and didn't expand my skills enough, especially the last 6½ months from ADBE takeover announcement to the bitter end.  Sure, nobody else was working then, but i let the malaise drag me down instead of taking care of myself.  If i'd let that happen in my relationship with Kim, she'd've divorced me.  Not that i'm saying i should put as much effort into my job as i do my marriage, but i shouldn't get comfortable and take it for granted, especially when the eventual outcome of the acquisition was evident to anyone with half a brain (but, alas, even i suffer from denial).

Anyway, i'll keep plugging away.  So far, the only places that have gotten back to me and haven't turned me down are Apple and TiVo.  More résumés have been dispatched.  I'll be getting my mojo back soon, i can feel it.

Comments

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I always find job-hunting soul-destroying. Rejections are hard enough, but I find the deafening silences hardest to deal with: it's not knowing how long to wait until writing an app off as a dead loss . . .

Anyway, good luck. You will find something; I just hope it's something you actually enjoy.

[ltempt.livejournal.com]

Urk. I met with a pimp today and spent one hour and twenty minutes being annoyed. I hate the whole process.

As far as Brocade switches go, they're pretty damn easy. Easy enough that it wouldn't be hard to claim the knowledge and bluff it out. Besides, half the time the switch configuration is done by the SAN vendor. Claiming experience with EMC etc is pretty damn easy - you aren't allowed to touch the EMC kit, so you don't need to know too much about it.

I've been told that Hitachi kit is a breeze to deal with, but I've never had the chance.

[internebbish.livejournal.com]

Aside from hating them for being ass - do you know anything about F5 boxes? Wells was big on F5 and Cisco. Want me to put some feelers out?

-moo

[vatine]

Go read the latest Blues Hobbits installment, it might (just) make you smile, I hope.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Agreed, job hunting is always a nightmare. I sometimes feel like my CV looks really shit, then I realise that I find it really hard to do the embellishments, so I put down what I actually know. I ought to probably take off some of the stuff I've done in the past, as I couldn't claim to know it any more.

Good luck, though.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about it. I was out of work for a year then ended up with the really awesome O2/Nortel gig. (The job itself was very good. The people who paid me were the absolute pits. The job itself was really good.)

And then I came here (:

Anyway, you already know 90% of the problem is you're in a market where they have 87 people just like you (in their books) and they can take whomever does whatever they like most, or in some cases, the dice get rolled, or in many cases, someone knows someone.

I would just not worry too much about it. (Having been there semi-recently, I know that worrying about it is impossible to remove completely.)

Ooo, Aperture....

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

I wish you well with the application with Apple for my own twisted reasons.

But, yeah, job hunting sucks.

[gallifreyan.livejournal.com]

After a few Mack(tm) trucks ran through the holes in my skill set, I learned to advertise them as free parking with purchase.

Seriously, though, I know enough about SANs to get by. I can zone a Brocade switch with the docs and the web interface. Nobody worth working for will turn you down (other than for a storage architect position) for not having the screens or CLI memorized.

ANd I know about the slackage. I did the same at my last job. It was a blessing in disguise to get hit with a major (for the company) SAN/Oracle/server buildout in the last two months.

I'd offer to put your resume in where I am, but I don't think we have open reqs and there are two people lined up for them already :)

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear your job search has been disappointing so far. Best of luck!

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Thumbs up, soldier.

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

"I'll be getting my mojo back soon"
There can be only _one_ Mojo, and he's mine!
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Mojo&Ailey.jpg
Seriously though, after my big layoff from HP I found myself in the saturated market of resumes and certain courtesies discontinued such as receiving so much as a simple acknowledgement. Even a polite: "HAW HAW LUZER not even CLOSE" would have been nice. No matter how good the support of loved ones you it can really suck a lot of self-confidence from you so be kind to yourself.
(I began to refer to the bastids as "soul suckers".) Bastids.

[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

Call your references and see if they have additional job searching ideas and other companies you might be interested in?
You might try using a networking site like LinkedIn too to expand your scope.
And play around with different resume formats.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Yeugh, you and me both, man.
I just had a great situation with emailing an art director that my previous boss introduced me to, and just... nothing in reply. Courtesy! Meaningless.

[sandollar17.livejournal.com]

Mojo is always good.

You can take some of mine---I think I have my hands sufficiently full for the next 5 weeks. :)

[arian1.livejournal.com]

Just hang in there man. It will come. Heh..listen to me, after spinning around the country for three years thinking I'd never get back out here. Just hang in there man, seriously. If I can get a tech gig again, ANYONE can.


PS: Who do I bribe for an icon like that?

[captain-nesky.livejournal.com]

Ha! the-thugish-rugish! that's funny!

[madmerle.livejournal.com]

I hear you - hang in there! I am SO not looking forward to job hunting within the next year or two myself...

BTW, I looked at your resume - I didn't know you were at Ames for awhile! I was at NAS from 1988-1994 doing C programming in their Mass Storage group. Ah, the good old days...

[zoutke.livejournal.com]

I wish you better luck than mine with you job hunt! But then again you have some interesting knowledge for companies.

I don't know how is it there but over here I got informed by the "jop-application coach" we get at the course that chronological order CV is out and you should go for anti-chronological. But if you really want to be on the up-and-coming wave you should use the skills based CV that also hides better holes in your carrier (or a previous carrier you may want to hide, like academic researcher)

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

Hang on, little tomato.

[venividi.livejournal.com]

D00D! if missus venivid can find work, anyone can find, er, wait, she's been out for three years now. er, never mind. D00D! if I can find work, anyone can find work! (yeah, that's the ticket.)