sethnintendo said:
richardhutnik said:
The idea was to get offers out like by mid-October. I missed a prior window, so cleared everything except a position. They then stepped it up.
I will be working a contract position, and the pay isn't really that good, but it is work. I get to work out of the house also, which keeps costs down. Will see how it goes.
I am plugging away at other things also, like getting the world's worst boardgame to market (it is a game that doubles a satire, FYI).
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Yea, working from home will be nice. You don't have to worry about gas, traffic, etc.. I suppose there aren't Apple buildings (campus) like there is in Austin, Texas where you live thus you get to work from home right away. My friend was working at the Apple site at first till they decided he was good enough to be able to work from home. Did they give you any information about how long the contract would be for yet or if you could get directly hired onto at Apple? Probably not and even if they did a lot of times contract companies just lie. I remember I was told before working at Flextronics that usually after 6 months to a year they will hire you on. I then got to the job and asked a few people about it and there were plenty of people that were still contract even after 3-4 years. Glad you got something. I am now currently on my 2nd month of being unemployed after being laid off at Flextronics (they lost a Microsoft contract for building 360 controllers and Cisco was reducing their orders). I want to use my degree in Wildlife Management but there aren't too many of those jobs going around and there are tons of people applying for the same job. So I will probably just end up in manufacturing again. I plan to move maybe to the Smokey Mountains area (Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge Tenn.) to one of my parent's houses since I might be able to land a parks job there. I don't want a wildlife job in Texas.
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Best thing to do is get what you can in your field, and then look to transfer elsewhere, when you can, later. You may also want to look into trying to set up volunteer work connected to your field, so you keep your resume busy. I have years of no paid work covered by what I did with my game groups. It was legitimate management work (arguably board of directors level), so it counts for something. It is just unpaid.
