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Posted by Hank [64.119.43.114] on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 23:54:05 :
In Reply to: OT - Job hunting posted by Joe Cimoch [68.116.181.98] on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 11:51:28 :
... I was in IT for 15 years, and when I quit I had yet another order to RIF more people on my desk. I guess it's this "transactional employment model" that corporate execs use as a euphamism for "fire everybody, and bring them back as hourly contractors if and when they are 100% billable". I was laying off good people I had worked with for years, the "deadwood" was long gone.
Just about everybody I worked with in those years has been RIFed one or more times at this point, and some are just done with it and retired or (like me) changed careers.
The best advice I have if you can't find a job is to see if you can get a few hourly consulting gigs. I know one guy who has three clients and makes as much as he used to at one job working half the hours for those three clients.
Good luck, and keep the faith!
H
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