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Old 08-02-2007, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Houston
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FL is the 2nd best place to look for a high tech job. Sure, MA, CA, and NY has a lot of high tech jobs but they also have a lot of competition in trying to get a job there. IT jobs are tough since 2001 and even for degreed IT folks.

Lets pray for a hurricane to divert from Houston to your town in Florida. Hopefully, that'll force y'all to move out and get down here.
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Old 08-02-2007, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Leaving Florida soon. Woo Hoo
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Nope I will come and everyone else can stay (hello, I am trying to escape this insanity my hubby dragged me into)

Tech jobs here are not what they are supposed to be. There are condo highrises here in SWFL in Lee and Collier Co. that can't go wireless because there is no company to do that. Like I said technology is very aniquated here maybe in the future, but now that business are going bust because houses aren't selling, jobs have stagnated. What jobs there are, are paying extremely low wages. Tech data only pays their techs $8-9 an hour. There are a little more jobs on the east coast, but not the magnatude you would expect to see in major cities in any state. My hubby is an IS manager for a huge company whose parent company owns the Grand Ole Opry and jobs in IT are dropping like crazy here in Florida with MAJOR lay offs or reassignments, the contractor who installed my cable was telling me that he has a CCNA.

If you do land a tech job you are looking at getting paid EXTREMELY low, I can make more as an Admin. Assist. than most pay here. I was going to transfer to ADT in Houston last year and they were going to pay me close to $20 in an office position. I know I will most likely not find that pay everywhere there but hey it's got to be better than here. Tech may pick up here if it doesn't become a ghost town first. Many people are just up and leaving their homes they can no longer afford. Foreclosures are ranging between about 800 to 1500 a month in each county. Jobs are gone. It's just really bad.
Can't wait to gooooooooooooooo!!!!
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