[rescue] What am I worth in America ?

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Ahh, but what you forgot to mention is 95% of those jobs require a
clearence, and 90% of the remainder require a us citizenship.  If you know
of a decent unix admin job that dosen't require a clearence please let me
know <Grin>
	Nick

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Tom Borton wrote:

> I live in the Washington, DC area and tech jobs here aren't doing too
> badly because they are tied to the defense industry (yes, I'm a
> blood-sucking defense contractor in my day job), but having MCSE will
> hurt and they like a BSEE or BSCS (or equivalent).  Then again, the
> small company I work for has a system admin that (I don't believe) has
> either.
> 
> The cost of living is high, although not at the nosebleed-level James
> mentioned.
> 
> If you want to be curious, you can look at
> http://www.washingtonjobs.com
> 
> Tom
> 
> --__--__--
> 
> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:46:42 -0600 (CST)
> From: Amy <turtlex at feeding.frenzy.com>
> To: "'rescue at sunhelp.org'" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: RE: [rescue] What am I worth in America ?
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Fogg, James wrote:
> 
> > On the other hand, there are three or four major tech centers that are
> still
> > hiring. Boston, NYC, parts of Texas and California. Unfortunately,
> living is
> > expensive there. Basic three bedroom, two bath houses often run 1/2
> million
> > US dollars.
> 
> here it's gotten stagnant. house prices have plummeted (and so has rent)
> by half in the last few months. but unfortunately there arent any jobs
> to
> take advantage of it :(
> 
> --a
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