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Ohio Dilemma |
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Here's my problem |
| Date Posted: |
08/01/2001 |
| Message: |
Well, I graduated college in december of 2000 and I was lucky enough to be offered an entry level position as an IS analyst with a local software company doing Visual Basic and SQL for the internal applications team. I've gotten some really good experience and I'm confident with what I've learned.
Now comes the problem. In April we were bought out by Microsoft and after being put to work on a 3 month data migration I have successfully worked myself out of a job and was laid off yesterday.
I've known that this was coming for few weeks so I've been searching for low level programmer/analyst work but without any success. One problem is that the NW Ohio area is mostly old industrial so most jobs are cobol and RPG programming and I fear that the other problem is that when potential employeers see my resume with less than a year professional experience then being axed that they think I'm a bad worker.
I've pretty much exhausted all local work possibilities and I would be willing to relocate to almost any "tech area" in the country with or without relocation help. I'm young, single, and rent my home so even if a company offered relocation I wouldn't need more than $1000 to move. If I had to I could be across the country in 3 weeks. I've made this clear on my cover letters but still haven't had any luck with out of state responses.
Any advice? Please help save me from becoming a waiter with a bachelors of information systems!
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