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One Week Down
So that's the first week of Copious Free Time out of the way. Did I achieve anything? Nope.
I started on the nms article. Tinkered with some updates to Array::Compare. Read a lot of newsgroups. Hung out on IRC. But mostly I seemed to email agents about jobs. The fact that I'm not findind work seems to be effecting my ability ot concentrate on one task.
The market seems to be picking up a bit. JobServe now has two pages of jobs that match my "unix perl contract london" criteria, but they still all have some requirement that I just don't quite meet.
Ah well, it's the weekend. Let's try and put those kinds
of thoughts out of my mind until Monday. Let's switch off
and have a proper weekend slobbing in front of the
DVD player
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
You should apply anyway... (Score:2, Informative)
As Damian said in his interview w/ pair.com (too lazy to link), the most important thing is knowing HOW to program. Obviously, you're in touch with that... so any aspect that they're looking for you could quickly learn, prolly even before you start work. ;
Re:You should apply anyway... (Score:2)
You're absolutely right about that and I do apply for every job where I match 75% of the requirements.[1]
The problem is that the the recruitment market has changed. Bear in mind that in order for my CV to end up on the desk of the technical manager who wants to employ me, it needs to go thru at least two non-technical people - the recruitment agent and the company HR person. Both of them act as gatekeepers and try to prevent unsuitable CVs from getting thru. Now in the past, they'd have taken a risk on a