i live in Johnson City, TN. i was able to make a living doing Perl from 1997 - 2002, and perhaps half a living in 2003, and may be able to resume making a living in this area shortly.
but i've found that although there are indeed tons of good-looking job postings lately, it's been nearly impossible for me to get interest from HR directors who staff those jobs, because i live so far away from the jobs' cities.
in one particular case, i thought i was going to get a high-profile and very-well-paying job in Silicon Valley. during and after a phone interview for the job, i was told that hundreds of people had applied for it, that i was in the final group (something like that; the top ten people), and that i could expect a plane trip out for the face interview.
after a call from the HR director saying that i would be getting an email with a schedule of a few more phone interviews, i didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks. i emailed the person who had originally interviewed me to ask what was up. they said that while i was qualified, the company had decided to focus only on local candidates, because there were so many of them.
i firmly believe that if i lived in the Bay Area, i would have gotten that job.
i've pretty much decided that if i want a job posted to this list, i need to find a way to move to CA or the DC/Boston corridor and -then- apply. i wonder if that's accurate. has anyone else here lived in a non-top-50 metro area in the US, and found a well-paying Perl job?
(i'm also getting more-than-annoyed at hirers who say they're going to contact me "in a few days" or "in a week" and don't. but i guess that's part of the game.)
-- Steve
Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Or move out of the bay area....
Anthony Ettinger wrote:
That's my biggest problem.
I'm on a single income, I get paid well now, and could afford mortgage payments a house in the south bay area (although it would take most of the income). But I'm afraid if I loose a job, I will not be able to find one in IT locally that pays as well.
The last few years, I've worked at 3 jobs, one high paying job during the boom, then about 44% of that during the bust. Now I make 117% of my original dotcom salary. If I loose my job tomorrow, who knows what the heck I'll be making at the next job.
My dad worked for IBM for 26 years, talk about job security.
My only solution is to find a woman who makes roughly the same so we can support each other when one of us it out of work, or to start my own business and hopefully make the same amount of money at it.
--- John Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The scary thing is with the low interest rates, home values are sky-rocketing, while salaries are staying the same and even shrinking. In some areas it is becoming very difficult to make a decent living in IT field - not to mention zero job security.
-- Steve Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
