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24 year old burnout |
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Well, eric |
| Date Posted: |
09/27/2001 |
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I ended up in a similiar situation like you did. Graduated from a good school with good GPA and honors. Did 2 internships as well.
After graduating worked for a Big 5 consulting firm in NYC for 1.5 years and then decided to become an independent consultant. After working as independent for another year and a half at various companies my last 1 year contract was terminated early back in June. Since then I only had 1 interview and now I am reading that companies will not be spending any money on software development for another year or so. What really scares the hell out of me is a possibility of ending up in this situation at 40 or so with wife, kids, mortgage (I am 24 and single right now) and no prospect of finding a job for a year. I am even starting to think about taking a government job as a programmer just to have the stability and security of the 9-5 job eventhough for substantially less money.
I would have never imagined that with having several top Wall St firms on my resume plus the Big 5 I would have such a difficulty finding a job. And now because of the World Trade Center finding a job has become totally impossible.
The fact that I worked as a contractor not a permanent employee when I lost my last job did not make much difference since the company fired a bunch of their permanent employees the same week they terminated my contract.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL! |
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Consider this before panicing too much. Year in, year out, the job figures show that the group with the least unemployment in the entire workforce is that very group of 40 year old's with wife and kiddies. Since markets are efficient there is a reason for that.
We (I'm 43 next month) have a large skill base which you have not have the time to compile. In bad times this can particularly help us, because a lot of the available work is in maintaining and improving old stuff, not building the new.
Conversely if we don't keep up growth times can actually be worse for us, because the old is getting elbowed out at flank speed.
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