The best advice ever given on this message board...

[VeryEmployed]

I'm quickly discovering a pattern on Dice's discussion forums.  It seems that there's a handful of lifer posters on this board that have nothing else to do and minimal brain activity.  I'm very employed in IT (.NET programmer) and VERY happy with my job and VERY well paid, and work no more than 40 hours a week if I don't want to.   I'm not under pressure or deadlines, and don't experience any of the rediculousness I'm reading about here.  I cannot relate to any of the posts from the lifers on this site.  I would suggest that if you post a question on this site and you're looking for valuable advice, start by ignoring all posts from anyone that has 100 or more postings.  These people really have nothing valuable to say or contribute.  People who have a life don't have time to type thousands of messages on Dice of all sites.  The lifers are here to try and bring all of you job/advice searchers into the same stinking sewer they live in.  By ignoring them, and not responding to their posts, you'll all eventually frustrate them to death and they'll implode on their own miserable existence.

[preban]

So go troll another board.

No really, nobody here cares that you have the world by the huevos. Most people here don't, or did and had fate snatch them away. Try being unemployed for over 7 months will no money or unemployment cash, hundreds of resumes sent, no phone calls back, etc. The very nature of your post shows you have no idea what we're talking about, so why do you care?

[computergeek08]

Clearly you have no empathy for anyone and it will bite you in the back one day. 

Also you should learnhow to spell when you are trolling a board....rediculousness = ridiculousness

[VeryEmployed · Accepted solution]

The title of this message board is "Tech Career Advice"

It's not 1,001 ways to kill yourself.

It's not 1,001 ways to stew in self-hate, pity, misery

It's not 1,001 ways to bring down your fellow man.

etc.

So, #1, thanks for proving my point... as you have exceeded the maximum 100 postings I recommended.

#2, I would think by the title of the message board, people are here looking to be helped, not to be dragged into the gutter by you lifers with nothing useful to say.  I think it's clearly YOU who should go TROLL another board... perhaps one that favors self-euthanasia and/or other means of sparing us all from your miserable existence.

[bg6638]

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I'm quickly discovering a pattern on Dice's discussion forums.  It seems that there's a handful of lifer posters on this board that have nothing else to do and minimal brain activity.  I'm very employed in IT (.NET programmer) and VERY happy with my job and VERY well paid, and work no more than 40 hours a week if I don't want to.   I'm not under pressure or deadlines, and don't experience any of the rediculousness I'm reading about here.  I cannot relate to any of the posts from the lifers on this site.

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I'll give you some job search parameters to make things more interesting for you:

1)  Age > 50  

2)  Legacy programming experience > 20 yrs   [ BAL, C, COBOL, RPG, x86 Assembly ]

3)  Field experience with .NET languages = 0

4)  Reside in state with high unemployment and strong ties w auto industry

5)  Relocation not an option

to "spice" things up even further, let's specifiy that the applicant does NOT have a bachelor's degree, which is common for a fair number of IT Pro's  who started their careers in the late 1960's & 70's

Have fun finding an IT job ...........................

[idm]

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bg6638 wrote:

I'll give you some job search parameters to make things more interesting for you:

2)  Legacy programming experience > 20 yrs   [ BAL, C, COBOL, RPG, x86 Assembly ]

4)  Reside in state with high unemployment and strong ties w auto industry

5)  Relocation not an option

to "spice" things up even further, let's specifiy that the applicant does NOT have a bachelor's degree, which is common for a fair number of IT Pro's  who started their careers in the late 1960's & 70's

Have fun finding an IT job ...........................

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Do you have any JD Edwards or similar experience?

[walterbyrd]

> I'm very employed in IT (.NET programmer) and VERY happy with my job and VERY well paid, and work no more than 40 hours a week if I don't want to.

Of course, that is all possible, and I have no way to know for sure what you do. So please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I can not help but be a little skeptical.

It is not that your story is so impossible, the odd thing is: you get so extremely upset with other posters who do not join you in your cheer-leading. In fact, all you seem to do is try to discredit those that are not so wildly enthusiastic about present tech market conditions. Why would you care so deeply that some people don't see a bright future for US tech workers?

If somebody posts something that you disagree with, please feel to contribute your own thoughts on that specific matter. And please feel free to back up your assertions with something more than anecdotal evidence. Also, please feel free stop making sweeping generalizations like "start by ignoring all posts from anyone that has 100 or more postings. These people really have nothing valuable to say or contribute."

BTW: I noticed you just registered today, but I can help but suspect that you have posted before today with a different nym. I have to wonder how many times you have posted here under various nyms.

Just sayin'

[CaptainJack]

  Maybe this poster has the charmed life.   Working massive hours and not being appreciated isn't just an IT thing. Plenty of people in various fields work 50-60 hours per week. They have crappy co-workers and bosses.    That's just life. Sometimes you luck out and everything is great, sometimes only a few things are great, sometimes nothing is great.    Anybody who claims life is one peachy rose is definitely not a person anybody should listen to.

[nobody]

It sounds to me like the OP is very young and stumbled upon the perfect first job.  That's wonderful, and I'm truly glad for him.  Please come back and post in a couple years to let us know how things went after that.  (At risk of being cynical, I think maybe it can only go downhill from there...)

[walterbyrd]

> It sounds to me like the OP is very young and stumbled upon the perfect first job.

Possibly, but it sounds to me like the OP is an instructor, employer, or recruiter, masquerading as US IT worker. The OP has offered no real carer advice, nor has the OP asked for any real career advice. The OP just bitterly rants against those who are not enamored with current tech market conditions for US IT workers.

The OP's nym was just registered yesterday (3/24). Yet the OP indicates that he is long-since fed-up with the negativity of certain posters. The OP is bitterly angry at those who have posted more than 100 times, and insists such posters should be ignored. But, how many times has the OP posted under various nyms? And why is the OP so dishonest about who he/she really is, and how many times he/she has really posted?