Legal jobs in SD

[NYSD1995]

surviving as a professional in San Diego will test your patience and intestinal fortitude as you navigate the hordes of small-time players, entrepreneurs, and marginal public corporations. If you have the stomach to cope with semi-annual layoffs and can say no to lowball offers, you can make it here. But if I had to do it all over again, and really wanted to live in Southern California, I would have moved to LA / OC instead. The pay is better, the market is richer, and everyone is operating at a higher level. Denver is really the same as San Diego but with a much lower cost of housing, that takes a bit of the pressure off your income.

[Bobbruce]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

surviving as a professional in San Diego will test your patience and intestinal fortitude as you navigate the hordes of small-time players, entrepreneurs, and marginal public corporations. If you have the stomach to cope with semi-annual layoffs and can say no to lowball offers, you can make it here. But if I had to do it all over again, and really wanted to live in Southern California, I would have moved to LA / OC instead. The pay is better, the market is richer, and everyone is operating at a higher level. Denver is really the same as San Diego but with a much lower cost of housing, that takes a bit of the pressure off your income.

The lowball offers in San Diego can be crazy, that's something I noticed early on. In IT they will try and hire people with 5 years experience, 12 different programming language skills, support, development, yadda yadda and then offer 13 dollars an hour.

If you wait the jobs that are for real come along just like anywhere else, but I've never seen a town where more companies try to hire people for peanuts, just because they know people just want to move to SD. I'm sure these are the same companies doing semi-annual layoffs, because they are run so poorly.

[NYSD1995]

Originally Posted by Bobbruce

The lowball offers in San Diego can be crazy, that's something I noticed early on. In IT they will try and hire people with 5 years experience, 12 different programming language skills, support, development, yadda yadda and then offer 13 dollars an hour.

If you wait the jobs that are for real come along just like anywhere else, but I've never seen a town where more companies try to hire people for peanuts, just because they know people just want to move to SD. I'm sure these are the same companies doing semi-annual layoffs, because they are run so poorly.

Churn and burn baby... several local corps (even some fairly large ones) are notorious for this.

[loveautumn]

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but as I recall, in your other post, you mentioned your age and I can't emphasize enough that you really need to factor that in. Age discrimination is alive and well everywhere, including San Diego. This area is loaded with young people. So is Denver. If you are 50+, it is rough going out there unless you have connections to a company. I've been through it...I had to make a decision similar to yours a few years ago and the reality was that I would have a tough time finding work because of my age, even with a pay cut. I had a tough time even being considered for a transfer within my own company...that's one of the reasons I stayed where I am.

[oddstray]

Regarding Denver and snow ...

Two of my sibs live in greater Denver area. San Diego is a bit right-wing for my political tastes, so I am considering retiring to the Denver area. I asked my sister about the snow, and she said that typically there are a couple of really harsh weeks during winter. Otherwise it's quite livable in winter.

Keep in mind that review is based on our childhood in Chicago ... lotsa' snow, serious winter.