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- Public libraries can help with the job search if they offer free internet access - If you don't mind camping, its an extremely cheap way to live, and a gym /
by araes 8y ago
- Public libraries can help with the job search if they offer free internet access
- If you don't mind camping, its an extremely cheap way to live, and a gym / YMCA will help before interviews.
- If you have any friends / family, ask them if you can crash. Have a friend who lived this way for ages.
- If it comes to it, there are often abandoned structures that are reasonable for keeping rain off. Lived in an abandoned office building for a month at one point. That one was really lucky. Had a gym, water, and electricity still!
- Apply, apply, apply. Set a goal. X applications a day, where X is probably 3+. Beat that goal every day.
- Be humble, but not desperate. If its reasonable and will pay bills, worth it.
- Be willing to move. Frankly, CO is really expensive. People scoff at AL (cur. loc.), but it has NASA, Army, most 3 letter agencies, and every gov't contractor known to man. Also, rent is $400-600 and a house can be found for $30000-40000 if you're not picky.
- Sell all your stuff. Flea markets, craigslist, ebay, whatever works.
- If you get a job - save. There is no reason to lose a job and then only have $400.
- Send me a msg (email in profile) if the AL thing sounds reasonable. Used to be in software and a contract mgr., can at least look at whats around. Can't promise, as I left to walk the earth a while back.
- greenyoda 8y ago> Send me a msg (email in profile) FYI, your email is not displayed in your profile. The "email" field in your profile is only visible to the moderators. If you want to publicly share your email address, it needs to be included in the "about" field.
- araes 8y agoThank you. Was not aware. Figured if I included it in the info it was viewable. Changed.
- oldsklgdfth 8y agoSidenote: how does a place like AL have so much government money poored into it?
- schoen 8y agoMaybe some government decisionmakers decided to spend money there as a deliberate matter of social policy, others saw it as a good place to get certain property and services that the government wanted at low cost, and maybe some legislators were good at getting procurement and grant preferences for their home state?
- austin_y 8y agoI can't really speak for the rest of the state but, in the late 50's / early 60's, Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal army base ended up as the home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as many of the post WW2 German rocket scientists. I think that over the decades, the focus on aerospace & defense has simply snowballed as more employers and workers are attracted to the area.
- araes 8y agoIts like gravity. You make a divot in spacetime, and things being to roll downhill toward the divot. Mass collects, attracts other mass, and soon you have a significant planetoid. Leave it alone long enough, you have a star, or in the case of some places, a black hole. In HSV case, several significant divots. NASA MSFC, Army Materiel Command (Logistics), and the Missile Defense Agency. Caveat on living here, if WWIII happens, we will get nuked.
- oldsklgdfth 8y agoI like the gravity analogy. Sounds like you live there. What is the life like there? Professionally and outside of work?
- bartozone 8y agoJust to add on to this, Huntsville, AL is the fastest growing market in the United States for technology jobs. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/facebook/facebook-build-750m-data-center-huntsville-alabama http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/facebook/facebook-build-7... Average rent for a 2br is somewhere around $800, and about 3 hours from Nashville and Atlanta.