Danté's Inferno

Underemployed freelancers and involuntary part-timers are hidden casualties of the deepening recession. We need to start counting these people. Including ME! I used to make a lot more money doing freelance (I was a corporation, though) and took a W-2 job that pays less since consulting dried up. read more | digg story

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Hey All, we learned a new acronym at work this week. It is MULA, Mandatory Unpaid Leave of Absence!

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Some wisdom being passed along for becoming a regular corporate employee after being a consultant for 20 years. I am currently doing this, but un-like the writer’s situation, I had to downgrade to a very junior level system administrator, working on technology that was new, maybe 5-7 years ago, if not older.read more | digg [...]

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5 Reasons for IT Recruitment problems that US CIOs face. This is a pretty good article. It shows how we as a nation do not value engineering and/or technology innovation. Everyone wants to be a follower. I have not seen companies be so slow to adopt new technologies as I have in the past 3 [...]

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