{"id":26,"date":"2003-10-06T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-10-06T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T06:12:00","slug":"desperation-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Desperation time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse. Job fairs in this economy, or singles events. I&#8217;ve only been to a couple of singles events and there&#8217;s certainly a strange feeling in the air. But current job fairs are worse.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the fair and was told I had to get my r&eacute;sum&eacute; &#8220;reviewed&#8221; before I could be let into the engineering section of the fair. There were only three exhibitors present plus the Navy and I&#8217;m too old to enter the military (35 is the maximum). Two of the exhibitors had openings I am underqualified for, senior electrical engineering jobs when I&#8217;m not at that level. No jobs in -the field where all the jobs are being sent to India- Computer Science. Good thing I (probably) got my Master&#8217;s Degree.<\/p>\n<p>I did get a call from a company in town for a web monkey job, but I&#8217;ve been told by a friend, &#8220;The boss is nutty &#8230; [and] doesn&#8217;t like to be told he&#8217;s wrong. &#8230; You wouldn&#8217;t make it a month.&#8221; I also checked on the machine shop job and it&#8217;s been filled already.<\/p>\n<p>I did score some swag, though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jobswag.jpg\" alt=\"Job fair swag.\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse. Job fairs in this economy, or singles events. I&#8217;ve only been to a couple of singles events and there&#8217;s certainly a strange feeling in the air. But current job fairs are worse. I went to the fair and was told I had to get my r&eacute;sum&eacute; &#8220;reviewed&#8221; before I could be let into the engineering section of the fair. There were only three exhibitors present plus the Navy and I&#8217;m too old to enter the military (35 is the maximum). Two of the exhibitors had openings I am underqualified for, senior electrical engineering jobs when I&#8217;m not at that level. No jobs in -the field &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Desperation time.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}