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I know what the reality is, and I know me feelings are irrational. Of course, depression usually is irrational. Honestly, it depends on what frame of mind I h

I know what the reality is, and I know me feelings are irrational. Of course, depression usually is irrational. Honestly, it depends on what frame of mind I happen to be in on a given day. Sometimes I look back on my ten years at a defense contractor and think how great it was to work on a complex radar power supply and on complex signal processing software with some seriously crazy platform constraints. Other times, I look back on that same period and see the two years of misery at the end of my tenure as I repeatedly tried and failed to find a new job to get me out of miserable working conditions, all while being told repeatedly from outside how hot software engineering was and figuring it must mean I was a defective doomed to my existence.

MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Where do you live? Location is everything, you shouldn't take it personally if someone in san fran or austin can find a job easily, those markets are on fire. It's a different story if you live in Kansas or Arkansas, you definitely shouldn't take it personally. Some of the crappiest engineers I know have a plethora of offers coming in on a weekly basis, just because the supply/demand curve for tech workers is completely out of whack here in Dallas. Geography makes a big difference.
- vonmoltke 12y ago
  How funny. I'm in Dallas. I did finally end up getting out to a small local company here, but as I said it took two years. I didn't apply much locally, though, since I couldn't find much that wasn't enterprise CRUD work. Except for my current company, those I did apply to (Lockheed, General Dynamics, CapitalOne, Gearbox, a few others I have forgotten) never contacted me over my resume. But yes, I know geography matters. That only helped the rational part, though.