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[24giovanni]

The aggressiveness of pursuing a career, getting out and obtaining interviews, doing what you have to to build your resume, actively pursuing jobs.....show me someone that's been pounding the bricks for over a year doing those..and I'll listen and give their opinion some credit. Otherwise....from what I see "from the trenches every day"....it's ripe for the picking! I'm in the field every day, deal with others in the field every day, I see what's going on, matter of fact just 3 months ago we ourselves hired added a new position and filled it. And just 2 years ago we got busy enough to hire a full time office manager.

Here's an article talking about the top 30 upcoming jobs in Boston. IT related jobs are in position 7, 8, 9, 28, and 30. Pretty bright outlook.
http://www.boston.com/jobs/galleries...g_occupations/

Here's article...best 25 jobs in 2012
IT related jobs hold positions 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best...e-25-best-jobs

Best 10 Jobs in the US from Huffington Post, IT jobs hold positions 1 and 9
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...tware_Engineer

I could go on and on and fill gigs of Philips hard drive space with posts and links.....
The economy has turned around...has been for a while. We're much busier...and even in real estate, my wife is cranking...she's made more in the past 5 months than the prior 2 years combined..and she did pretty well last year. The housing market is a good measure of the pulse of the economy.
IT jobs are plentiful. Yeah, the market is very competitive...you have to actually work hard at getting a job, you have to be aggressive and market yourself with confidence...the competition is fierce, but the openings are abundant.

I still want to see people who are in the field looking for a job. I see people who graduated from Clark university from networking and security certs who are working in liquer stors so I have to disagree with you Cat. Sorry.

[24giovanni]

The aggressiveness of pursuing a career, getting out and obtaining interviews, doing what you have to to build your resume, actively pursuing jobs.....show me someone that's been pounding the bricks for over a year doing those..and I'll listen and give their opinion some credit. Otherwise....from what I see "from the trenches every day"....it's ripe for the picking! I'm in the field every day, deal with others in the field every day, I see what's going on, matter of fact just 3 months ago we ourselves hired added a new position and filled it. And just 2 years ago we got busy enough to hire a full time office manager.

Here's an article talking about the top 30 upcoming jobs in Boston. IT related jobs are in position 7, 8, 9, 28, and 30. Pretty bright outlook.
http://www.boston.com/jobs/galleries...g_occupations/

Here's article...best 25 jobs in 2012
IT related jobs hold positions 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best...e-25-best-jobs

Best 10 Jobs in the US from Huffington Post, IT jobs hold positions 1 and 9
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...tware_Engineer

I could go on and on and fill gigs of Philips hard drive space with posts and links.....
The economy has turned around...has been for a while. We're much busier...and even in real estate, my wife is cranking...she's made more in the past 5 months than the prior 2 years combined..and she did pretty well last year. The housing market is a good measure of the pulse of the economy.
IT jobs are plentiful. Yeah, the market is very competitive...you have to actually work hard at getting a job, you have to be aggressive and market yourself with confidence...the competition is fierce, but the openings are abundant.

Like I said, I want to see if sava and Cd agree with you.

[YeOldeStonecat]

I still want to see people who are in the field looking for a job. I see people who graduated from Clark university from networking and security certs who are working in liquer stors so I have to disagree with you Cat. Sorry.

The above links I put up are facts...not opinions.

Here's a link to just one...(of many)...sources of local jobs. It shows jobs that are IT related within 15 miles of my house...most of which are under 7 miles from my house.
http://jobs.newlondoncountyjobs.com/...fm?site_id=269
One is an IT support got for a local credit union that has several branches in the area...a good job.
Another one shows several openings...different skill levels, for positions in very large IT department of General Dynamics. Those are mega sweet jobs. General Dynamics is huge!
Another 4 listings are good jobs in the IT field with rather large companies also...CSC being one very large one.

Now if I felt like taking the time to link up big online job hunt sources....like monster, and local newspapers....I could keep putting up factual posts.

As for CD...I've seen him making posts on this forum about doing his resume and hating his current job. OK..that's step 1. That doesn't speak factually about actual IT job availability in his area. The next stepS are....to go out and bang on doors...and get in front of the face of possible employers. That's the hard part for many people. Gotta strap on the big boy pants and get out there and do it. Because that's where the confident/aggressive people make out well and land those jobs, and the quiet/meek ones go home and say they can't find anything.

And the thing with lots of IT positions....the "area" doesn't matter, you could live like a hermit on an island and still hold down a killer IT job as long as you had remote access to what you have to manage. So even if you live out in the so called swamps and sticks like Sava....wouldn't stop me from doing much of my work.

I could say with confidence I could move to any of our beautiful 50 states in this country and land a sweet IT gig within 6 months.

[24giovanni]

The above links I put up are facts...not opinions.

Here's a link to just one...(of many)...sources of local jobs. It shows jobs that are IT related within 15 miles of my house...most of which are under 7 miles from my house.
http://jobs.newlondoncountyjobs.com/...fm?site_id=269
One is an IT support got for a local credit union that has several branches in the area...a good job.
Another one shows several openings...different skill levels, for positions in very large IT department of General Dynamics. Those are mega sweet jobs. General Dynamics is huge!
Another 4 listings are good jobs in the IT field with rather large companies also...CSC being one very large one.

Now if I felt like taking the time to link up big online job hunt sources....like monster, and local newspapers....I could keep putting up factual posts.

As for CD...I've seen him making posts on this forum about doing his resume and hating his current job. OK..that's step 1. That doesn't speak factually about actual IT job availability in his area. The next stepS are....to go out and bang on doors...and get in front of the face of possible employers. That's the hard part for many people. Gotta strap on the big boy pants and get out there and do it. Because that's where the confident/aggressive people make out well and land those jobs, and the quiet/meek ones go home and say they can't find anything.

And the thing with lots of IT positions....the "area" doesn't matter, you could live like a hermit on an island and still hold down a killer IT job as long as you had remote access to what you have to manage. So even if you live out in the so called swamps and sticks like Sava....wouldn't stop me from doing much of my work.

I could say with confidence I could move to any of our beautiful 50 states in this country and land a sweet IT gig within 6 months.

Cat, God bless you if you could but there are many people in the IT field having a hard time getting another job instead of a job that sux like CD and myself dont enjoy in the field. Lets just say we agree to disagree.Looking as hard as one can doesnt always mean your gonna find what one wants. A friend's kid graduated from Stonehill in Easton, Ma with honors and cant find one either.

[CableDude]

Can some one just give me a template or answer my question as to what I really need?


This is really getting frustrating and I am tired of being in misery 24/7

[RaisinCain]

Sorry for being a dick but, you want an IT position and you can't even create a resume (seriously)? Are you willing to relocate?

[RoundEye]

I would try to slip in how long you been at your current job, even though you have no certs, you have experience and that counts alot. Try to get your Net+ and and A+ that actually applies as one test completed for the MCSA. Then you have A+, Net+ and MCSA.

The MCSA is 4 of thier easier test or try to get the MCSE it's only 4 test too. My old boss would pay for the test unless you failed, then you paid for it.

Good luck you've been bitching about your current job long enough.

[RaisinCain]

I would try to slip in how long you been at your current job, even though you have no certs, you have experience and that counts alot. Try to get your Net+ and and A+ that actually applies as one test completed for the MCSA. Then you have A+, Net+ and MCSA.

The MCSA is 4 of thier easier test or try to get the MCSE it's only 4 test too. My old boss would pay for the test unless you failed, then you paid for it.

Good luck you've been bitching about your current job long enough.

Amen. An IT job is not going to just materialize out of nowhere.

[Dan]

I've had 7 drinks at 7 bars in 7 years?

that makes 21 glitches