A new direction on the job hunt

Posted on February 6, 2010 - Filed Under Contracting, Mainframe | Leave a Comment

Okay, I’ve moved through the first two iterations of my job hunt–ramping up my profiles on Google and LinkedIn, and refining my resume so I have multiple versions. That looked promising for a while.

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My 6 month adventure with (shudder) unemployment

Posted on November 6, 2009 - Filed Under Contracting | 1 Comment

Remember those days when people kept saying “Cobol is dead?” We just laughed, and kept on coding. Well, laugh no more. Cobol is not dead–there are still thousands of programmers out there. It’s just finding a new mainframe position after losing a job that’s dead. I’ve been a contractor for over 30 years, and I’ve never lost any sleep over getting the next contract. Until I finished my contract with Geico, 6 months ago.

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