Re: Help me please to find a job in Cocoa
Re: Help me please to find a job in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Help me please to find a job in Cocoa
- From: Hasan Diwan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:18:35 -0500
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Finding work in cocoa is a problem. It's not restricted to Cocoa either, nor is it restricted to the United States. Take heart that this downturn will not last forever. As I see it, technology was built out in preparation for Y2k and when y2k occured, the people didn't panic, there weren't runs on banks, the power grid didn't fail, etc. Companies had built in extra capacity to handle traffic which just wasn't there. Additionally, lots of their existing traffic went away with the subsequent dot-com meltdown.
Result: there's lots of technological infrastructure that isn't used. People who were burnt lending money to dubious businesses are not going to do it again very soon. Someone from Worldcom mentioned that they are using 12% of their pipes at peak usage. The only way companies are going to be hiring is if they need to expand. Well, right now, they aren't using what they have, so why should they do so?o
On 2002-12-17 06:54:05 -0800 matt neuburg <email@hidden> wrote:
The last time this topic arose (which seems to be every month or two), I picked out one of the posters and asked him if he was sincerely looking for work; he said that he was, so I offered him a job. (In fact, I offered him *my* job - I've been making a very decent living with Cocoa for the past several months.) He suddenly started acting like this was a suspicious thing to do, and didn't take it. So, one key to finding a job is to take it when it's offered.
Also, this person's subsequent whining and insults made it clear to me and my employers that he wouldn't have made a good member of the team. Which brings up another point, that the key here is "team". To do software work, you have to be willing to deal with clients who are not programmers and can't describe adequately what they want and keep changing their minds, and yet you must deliver it anyway. It seems to me that if you're willing to be reasonably adaptable and vaguely polite, and have good communications skills, finding work in Cocoa shouldn't be any problem. If you're someone who says "yes" to everything the client asks you to do, and delivers, they'll want you back again and again. If you whine at what an idiot you think they are, they won't. The skills people really need in order to get work aren't CS or Cocoa skills, they're people skills. m.
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