Lan Barnes wrote:
The unemployment rate was jiggered by the Bushies by redefining what being "unemployed" is in, IIRC, 2001. It is seriously underrepresentative. Also
Can you point me to some more accurate employment figures using the previous definition of unemployed? I would like to see how much difference the change has made.
But either way, why can't I find experienced perl coders? We are offering good money and this is a great place to work. If the job market stinks we should have people beating down our door. But I am getting regular offers for work which I didn't get two years ago and I can't find anyone to hire. Cooked books or not, real personal experience would seem to indicate that the market is looking good. Last week I had lunch with Switchvox who were interested in me. I mainly wanted to meet with them because they were ex-MP3 employee friends of mine and were doing cool things with VOIP. The week before I got an email from a friend at Linspire who wants me to code Haskell for him (although I don't really know any Haskell yet) the week before that it was a headhunter. Yesterday I got an IM from someone looking for a Linux consultant.
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