Reply to: Benched

[PAH]

Sounds like an added bonus to me.

There really isn't a massive difference between the north and south since all the town centres and high streets got over-run with chain stores. Tescos is Tescos wherever it is.

Apart from the slightly worse weather up north it has some plus points:

Greenery if you like walking on it rather than eating it.
Cheaper house prices, though lower wages.
Not as many mockneys and snobby twats giving it the big I am.

Biggest downside to the north:

The majority of the women are munters who like their food too much or are grandmas by 30. All the fit ones relocate near a premiership football stadium or have a real bad attitude to ugly blokes.

[PAH]

Elvis,

'Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web.',

what the flip have you been doing for the last ten years ?

Milan.

It's a well worn bench that one.

I know people who have dedicated their professional careers to Oracle, strange as it may seem. At least they don't have to keep re-training every 3 years to keep up with the latest tool-sets. For that reason maybe I should have stuck with COBOL. Skills for life.

[milanbenes]

Elvis,

'Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web.',

what the feck have you been doing for the last ten years ?

Milan.

[bobsyouruncle]

As a northerner that's usually the only way I get any contracts. I've tried holding out for stuff closer to home (despite the big difference in rates) but always give in to temptation and back down south I go.

yep, me too, i live in the middle of nowhere, but would happily go north...unfortunately all the jobs are darn sawf

[oracleslave]

As a northerner that's usually the only way I get any contracts. I've tried holding out for stuff closer to home (despite the big difference in rates) but always give in to temptation and back down south I go.

Sounds like an added bonus to me.

[PAH]

Sounds like you need to be more flexible on location.

As a northerner that's usually the only way I get any contracts. I've tried holding out for stuff closer to home (despite the big difference in rates) but always give in to temptation and back down south I go.

[PAH]

Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web.

Yep, you're stuffed.

Last time I saw Oracle it came on a pile of 50 or so floppy disks. Glad I wasn't the one lumbered with installing that lot!

[tay]

1/ get a sexy avatar and flirt in TPD with assorted sexually frustrated nerds who you just know are knocking one out as they type with their free hand

[oracleslave]

Everytime I get a response like that, I look at my CV and think what's wrong. I must have been through it 20 times. I dunno if its the two timeline breaks in it...or that half the CV is with Canadian companies - and maybe they never heard of Canada - or that I started in C++, then moved to ASP/SQL Server, then Oracle with some Access.

Anyway, permie is over and done for me. I'm over 40 anyway - not that I put that on my CV. I'm hunting for freelance work now. Perhaps one day I'll find something.

Sounds like you need to be more flexible on location.

[lilelvis2000]

If you are getting a response of ‘interesting CV’ then there is something seriously not right with your CV, have someone look at it and critique it!!

Everytime I get a response like that, I look at my CV and think what's wrong. I must have been through it 20 times. I dunno if its the two timeline breaks in it...or that half the CV is with Canadian companies - and maybe they never heard of Canada - or that I started in C++, then moved to ASP/SQL Server, then Oracle with some Access.

Anyway, permie is over and done for me. I'm over 40 anyway - not that I put that on my CV. I'm hunting for freelance work now. Perhaps one day I'll find something.

[Churchill]

Is "Benched" like being "Pegged"?

[oracleslave]

you should try to change your CV to make it closer to whatever the adds is, or whatever field you want to develop in.

Or just do what one agent told me. Cut and paste parts of the job spec into your CV.

[SandyDown]

I would prefer to work here. I did the Manchester thing for five years and got tired of the train, the rain and the smelly chavs. Plus I hardly saw my children.

Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web. I haven't really seen anything good around here. There maybe the odd one going for £25ish which I've applied for, but all I get is "interesting CV". Seriously that's the response I get.

If you are getting a response of ‘interesting CV’ then there is something seriously not right with your CV, have someone look at it and critique it!!

I got a response saying ’Distinguished CV’ I was a bit worried, but then I got offered the role, so am thinking it’s a good response… but seriously the response you are looking for is CV fits skill set - even if you don’t get offered the role, you should try to change your CV to make it closer to whatever the adds is, or whatever field you want to develop in.

[lilelvis2000]

Not true. Have a look on the Jobcentre website. A few weeks ago when I was perusing jobs in the region out of interest, saw a permie position in Blackburn (assuming that's where your location is refering to) doing M$ based web development for a similar amount you get in Manchester.

I would prefer to work in Manchester though to be honest!

I would prefer to work here. I did the Manchester thing for five years and got tired of the train, the rain and the smelly chavs. Plus I hardly saw my children.

Anyway, I do Oracle and have no experience in web. I haven't really seen anything good around here. There maybe the odd one going for £25ish which I've applied for, but all I get is "interesting CV". Seriously that's the response I get.

[DimPrawn]

One word.


Doomed.


HTH