Re: I want to be oracle master.

On 07 Nov 2002 11:54:37 +0000, Phil Britton <phil_at_phil-britton.com> wrote:

>faked_at_spam.me.not.com (Jeremy Russell) writes:
>
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>> Education is a great thing - practical expertise counts also - but
>> right now, you could be Brainiac, Mr. Universe, Bill Gates all rolled
>> together - work for 28 hours a day *and* pay mill-owner for permission
>> to come to work (Python - sorry, off at a tangent again) and still not
>> get a job.
>>
>> Industry and service co's aren't recruiting - no-one is changing jobs
>> - and therefore .... we have stagnation.
>>
>> I'm considering myself as semi-retired - and I've got three years to
>> go till the big 5-0.
>>
>> At least with depression, you get caught up on your sleep!
>
>I think your problem is the same as mine. Once you get past 45 they seem to
>think you are semi-retired and you don't get a look in. I've been sending off
>CVs to UK based agencies for the last month or so and some of them don't even
>have the courtesy to reply to emails. But don't worry (if any of you are
>reading here) I've got a little list and the next time I'm recruiting I know
>where my business is going. Funnily, at 43 I got lots of interest.
>
>The only interview I've had so far is through a newspaper add and I got the
>impression at the interview that they hadn't read my application properly so
>maybe they didn't realise how old I was,
>

And the only interview I've had - since June - was for a charity where I had been doing volunteer IT work i.e. a freebie. I heard that there was a fulltime vacancy coming up - for the work I'd been doing free - so I applied and had an interview. And they offered the post to some kid just out of school. But they still had the balls to e-mail me just this week, asking when I was going to do some more volunteer stuff!

And we're not talking basic stuff, btw - we're talking intranet design - from scratch - using Macromedia software (which they wanted *me* to acquire), Coldfusion and a SQL-Server backend. Maybe not the cutting edge of technology but possibly more than your "website from £100" schoolkid can achieve.

OK - love to stop and chat some more but I've got the weekly shop to take care of and then the daytime soaps to watch.

Later.
JR Received on Thu Nov 07 2002 - 06:28:22 CST