Melbourne, Australia here. Personally as an ops engineer I'd find it _very_ easy to get another job, my guess is that if I didn't care what the job was I could

Melbourne, Australia here. Personally as an ops engineer I'd find it _very_ easy to get another job, my guess is that if I didn't care what the job was I could get one in a day, if I wanted to wait for something decent but not fantastic I'd probably need to spend a week and a half perhaps? And for something really great - well that could be anywhere from a week to six weeks, maybe more depending on how picky I was being I'd guess? When I hear of people that can't get and job and are in IT, they're either: 1) Inexperienced and don't have the the charisma and confidence to prove they can learn things quickly. I feel sorry for these people and I hope they can learn the skills to help themselves. 2) Think they know their stuff but they're book learned, probably have some bits of paper that say they're certified in X or Y that no one cares about, I see so many people with rubbish qualifications like MCSE or CCNA etc... (note that CCNA does teach you important networking concepts but that's not its point), these people piss me off, and when they do get a job - they're the ones I don't want to have anything to do with.