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From: ElocutusOfBorg
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <364a3b72.260214259@news.panix.com>, smanes@NOSPAM.HEREmagpie.com (Steve Manes) wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 04:24:49 GMT, ElocutusOfBorg@hotmail.com > (Elocutus, gangofborg) wrote: > Sure, there are some financial market jobs available, albeit at rates > 20% below what I saw last year and mostly with "open-ended" contracts, > meaning you could be back on the street next week. After a month of > dry hump interviews on Wall Street, I went uptown and got a great > contract with a large ad agency. Interviewed at 10am; on the books at > noon. The contrast was stunning. I had two offers in one day, the > other from the NY Times. OTOH, I left a position at Pfizer three weeks ago and had two offers, both at higher rates than I've ever made before (as it should be)--one to go *back* to Salomon Smith-Barney after being away for three years and one from the Associated Press--within 48 hours of putting my resume out. Clearly (and based on the resume you posted on your site) we are in different segments of the job market. BTW, I took the AP job. It looked like a lot more fun (and so far has been.) --Elocutus -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,a818a10e0af8b760 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 10675b,a818a10e0af8b760 X-Google-Attributes: gid10675b,public X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,a818a10e0af8b760 X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,ba9f41f9812be7d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: ElocutusOfBorg@hotmail.com Subject: Re: IBM Is Importing Low Wage Employes To Avoid Paying American A Decent Wage! Date: 1998/10/28 Message-ID: <7187g8$mrc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 406067489 References: <362241f1.141785129@news.inch.com> <365054e3.2519021729@news.panix.com> <36238c02.76576870@news.inch.com> <36288ff2.2599688863@news.panix.com> <3631c78d.91822059@news.inch.com> <364c238e.2768573923@news.panix.com> <362dc3c0.313575109@news.inch.com> <3636ca00.3007827683@news.panix.com> <363b243e.338281110@news.inch.com> <36390d10.3090544658@news.panix.com> <362e8d41.430714478@news.inch.com> <36375d98.6840780@news.panix.com> <3635f0ee.279612466@news.inch.com> <364a3b72.260214259@news.panix.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 165.1.20.15 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Oct 28 22:57:12 1998 GMT Newsgroups: nyc.general,dc.general,ca.general,dfw.general X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)