**My suspicion: because they are > unwilling or unable to relocate to where the jobs are, or they want moving > & living expenses paid by an unwilling prospective employer**
In Europe, there are a lot of multi-lingual Mainframers commuting between Capital cities or their equivalent, still a paucity of (Mainframe) jobs. This has been the situation since 2001. Things have not recovered since. ** Unfortunately the employers don't consistently use the same phrase for the same job ** Nowadays not many employers or indirectly, their (employment) agencies know what a sysprog does or is. My three (Euro) cents. JC On Wed, October 18, 2006 15:07, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Tuesday, 10/17/2006 at 11:04 GMT, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> So why are there so mainframe types unemployed? >> > > I have asked myself the same question. My suspicion: because they are > unwilling or unable to relocate to where the jobs are, or they want moving > & living expenses paid by an unwilling prospective employer. > > > I hope it's not because they don't use online services like monster.com > where 328 "mainframe system programmer" jobs are listed (some of which are > not really sysprog jobs). Add the results of "mainframe system > administrator" and the number rises. Unfortunately the employers don't > consistently use the same phrase for the same job. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development IBM Endicott > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > John Cassidy (Dipl.-Ingr.) Berninastrasse 9 8057 Zuerich Europe Mobile: +41 (0) 79 207 3268 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.JDCassidy.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
