[TriLUG] New member re-location question

[Jon Carnes]

On the other hand... Consulting work has been on the rise, and not just
the tiny one or two day jobs.  Businesses in the Triangle area seem to
be somewhat aware of Open Source alternatives - well at least they
listen when you call.

Not that I'm advocating more competition, but if you're heading down
this way and you're dead-set to work with OpenSource, then you might
want to hang out your consulting shingle for awhile.  Folks aren't
beating a path to my door, but they aren't throwing me out when I show
up to talk about migrating to Open Source solutions.

The savings to businesses that adopt Open Source are very real and
immediate and those kinds of results generate "word of mouth" which is a
funny phrase - but the best advertising you can get. 

Good luck in whatever you decide -

Jon Carnes

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 08:50, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I've been looking around, since my career path at my job is stunted. I
> cannot get anywhere right now and I'm IN the market. Been looking for 2
> 1/2 years. I agree with Chris, stay in Boston if you can, since the
> market here is dead.  I have friends from Nortel, Cisco, IBM, and
> smaller that have been out of work for years, yes years (plural). Not a
> good market right now.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:08, Chris Magnus Hedemark wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 09:34 PM, Philip Buckley wrote:
> > 
> > > I am planning on moving down to the Raleigh area from up here in 
> > > Boston. I will be heading down sometime in July and was wondering if 
> > > you guys could help point me towards some good resources (internet or 
> > > "real") to help me find employment when I get down there.
> > 
> > You're kidding, right?
> > 
> > You probably should have stayed in Boston.
> > 
> > Though if you are committed and there is no turning back, try to get 
> > into IBM.  They often do temp-to-hire positions through the area head 
> > hunters.  You can often figure out pretty easily who is pimping for IBM 
> > by the job descriptions (a disproportionate amount of positions looking 
> > for AIX people, for example).
> > 
> > - --
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> > Chris "Magnus" Hedemark
> > UNIX / Linux / BSD / Mac OS X / Windows consulting available.  No job 
> > too small!
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