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  1. DrJ

    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Agreed, it does sound pretty interesting. It seems to me that a big part of the problem (in terms of unemployment numbers and all) is that our workforce simply hasn't been agile enough, especially compared to these other countries you are talking about. This sounds like a pretty cool way to go about addressing that.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    And this is why some of the guys I work with are lamenting their decision to come here. They'd like to move into management, but it's saturated here and there's few management positions to be had. Over there it's easy to move into these positions in almost no time. I think this also makes a lot of the IT execs and managers here especially risk averse in comparison to years past. They lose their job, and it's a rough go finding a new one. They're not going to take a chance on some guy with math skills being trainable in the field, there's chance and risk involved and that's the last thing they want to do right now.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    I'm OG here. A little respect please.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Mainly because you hate America. But let's assume it's someone that cares about this country.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Thank you sir, good to be back.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Training? Who needs training? I have 15 years of experience across a wide range of stuff, a hell of a lab, and am more than happy to invest in myself. I'm kind of wondering what sort of candidate you believe could come up with this level of certification in that period of time with no experience in this field. Certification isn't the end all, be all. But it certainly demonstrates more initiative and dedication to my craft than the vast majority of people out there, and anyone I'd actually learn from and respect in this field makes this sort of effort as well. Usually I find the people that denigrate them are ones that are simply unwilling to take the initiative to get them. Sure you need less server, network, platform, and storage help. Instead you need a guy that understands all of it to get the most out of your investments here rather than a team of people understanding bits and pieces. Those guys are unfortunately not very easy to find these days, there's millions of jobs in this area going unfilled as a result, yet people are still trying to get by on the cheap. There's no shortage of people looking for me without solicitation on my end, I get people pestering me on Linkedin all of the time, I even had someone call me unsolicited on my office phone a couple weeks ago, they just have crappy salary ranges and I'm not interested in wasting either of our time. I don't like my job currently and don't believe they're utilizing my skills effectively, but I'm still going to need an appreciable jump in salary to make a change. I'm sure the guy they get for peanuts is pretty terrific though. It'll turn.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Good stuff. I expect that the situation I'm describing is going to turn very shortly as people really start to invest in some of the more emerging technologies like Cloud that require levels of expertise the IT workforce is unable to keep up with. That's why I think it's a much better use of resources to advance my skills in this area vs one that my employer (and other opportunities I'm seeing) might find useful as of today, especially when they have no plans to reward me either way. I get a lot of people looking for me for my Unix and SAN skills especially, but I don't think it's a good move to continue type casting myself in those areas. A lot of companies are going to be really disappointed when they see all of their talent jump ship very quickly because they treated them like crap these past couple of years, and it costs them piles of money to replace them.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Working hard to advance your own goals isn't slacking, it's simply a better allocation of your resources if employers aren't willing to adequately pay you to advance theirs.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    So in the meantime, I'm working as little as possible on things that advance their goals and spending my efforts advancing mine. No one will can me, because where else are you going to find this skill set when you actually need it? Besides, I'm doing the minimum, just like everyone else. And even assuming they do, I'll find another job that will be as unrewarding pretty easily. It's not that my skills aren't in demand, it's just that people are too lazy to spend time recognizing and rewarding talent properly.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    I've found that the pay scale doesn't reward hard work because the people in HR and doing the hiring are very lazy. It's too hard to figure out who works hard and what that's worth, so they go about it the lazy way and try and use things like industry averages and normalized pay increases across the company. Why should someone bust their ass for 4% when you give everybody 3% no matter what? Doing as little as possible to get by gives the best work to reward ratio.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Even if you do, they still aren't paying. Why bust your ass to acquire better skills when people aren't even going to pay you what that effort was worth? Over that space I have added VCP, VCP-Cloud, VCP-Desktop, CCNA and CCNP, CCNA Voice, RHCSA, and CISSP. I'll have the VCAP-DCD within a couple of weeks. I've been adding a new cert like every other month. Does that get me a big raise? Of course not. Once someone actually wants to pay some coin for these skills, I'll be done with my present employer. But right now the market seems flooded with people trying to take advantage of people on this end of the skill spectrum and get them for peanuts.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    Yeah, I was looking through postings a few weeks ago and saw a Linux job where they were looking for 0-2 years of experience and paying 60K. To me, having experience isn't all it's cracked up to be these days because they aren't paying the high end jobs enough. It's hard to find a job making a lot more than double that 60K job, but they certainly want way more than twice as much skill for those jobs. Over the last year and a half I've added about 7 highly recognizable certs, but it doesn't seem that anyone actually wants to reward me for those skills, including my present employer. Starting up something on the side as a result and hoping to get out of this BS system.
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    Recruiters - Looking for a New Job

    I'm in IT as well, and I'm not getting the Indian guys either. Just people looking for piles of skills but only wanting to pay what guys with much smaller piles of skills make.
  14. DrJ

    Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears

    The problems that crop up when they face top D's is containing the pass rush. Give Cutler time with people open, he can hit all of the throws. Have 6 guys stay in to block, watch them get beaten by 3 dudes repeatedly, no QB is going to have a fun time with that.
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    Cutler has torn MCL

    Going to have to disagree. Walter Payton cried on the sidelines after a playoff loss to the Redskins that was his final game. People suggested it to showed how much love and passion he had for the game.
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