KC Job Market

[Richard Meeker]

You know, the really funny thing is that if they choose to take you on a
contract basis for 6 months, what they pay in that 6 month period of
time may be equal to 2 years of what they might offer you for salary.
Sometimes, in my humble opinion, the contract route just doesn't make
any sense.  They're not worried about money, it's the HR dept that is
worried about money, and ultimately they (your supervisors) have to
obtain permission from HR.  So, they will continue to bypass HR until
they either hire you on a permanent basis, or they choose to let you go
- without severance, of course.

Anyone need a good cross-platform admin, I do Linux, Novell, and NT?  Of
course, that's probably 75% of the people on this mailing list too :).

-----Original Message-----
From: ndr [mailto:phidias at netgate.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:44 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: KC Job Market

It looks like I may not be taken on perm at the company I work for as
planned. They have "extended" my contract indefinitely until they can
determine whether they have the money in the budget to take me and the
other contractors perm. I have only been here 2 months so far (3 month
contract). I even moved here from CA because I thought the company would
provide better job security. They may still take me perm but I am not
counting my chickens. 

My question is about the local job market. Is it really tough? I have
about 4 years of Unix Sys Admin experience in a wide range of platforms.
May have to move again if it is really bad. Just getting sick of the
whole pink slip thing.