I'm a software consultant doing embedded software. My base residence is in Phoenix. Unfortunately since August of 2000 I worked only about 36 months in Phoenix and the remainder elsewhere. That's in a little over 8 years.
I got my original gig through Monster.com. Since then, I have not had to use websites to get a job. I always had one lined up through the staffing company which finds me jobs. Even though the staffing firm has a good track record of finding me a gig with little or no downtime, I still find it very educational and profitable to look at dice.com and perhaps ceweekly.com. They seem to have the best listings for contractor engineers. This helps keep me abreast of what is out there. I've been lurking on those sites long enough to know that some "fishing holes" have cyclic hiring of consultants. Such is the nature of our planned ecomomy.
If your question is about the Phoenix metro area, I don't know of many software jobs for now. My territory is the continental USA and Hawaii (never had a gig in Hawaii but there's always hope).
Geographically and personally, I'd make more money on the east coast at this time, and they have some overtime work. However I'm working for now in LA and the company is very reluctant to ask you to work overtime. It's just that I was in Maryland for 13 months and I needed to get to Los Angeles again (I love LA). I'll allow for working here through October but I must vacate this job before November or I'll be helping much more after October 31 to finance this insane government bailout, pork barrel spending, and socialism!
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Originally Posted by JOLYBECA
Just curious how the tech industry out there is doing. Computer programmer, software developer, Java developer, Java programmer......
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