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Maybe you should start looking for something more afield of where you live? Sounds like you could get a high paying job in a more populated place and relocate quite easily (in my wee opinion)...always worth taking a look, just in case.

What about the national's when the IT suppliment comes out (I only say that because it's tuesday - guardians education jobs day...so many great jobs...all so many miles away)...or the newspaper jobs websites? Or even just internet job sites...would be a major place for IT jobs I would have thought?

I'd say only about 5% of the unis jobs make the national papers and a different 5% make the local they are all listed on the website (how I found my job - didn't see it advertised anywhere but I was keeping an eye on the unis job site because they are a local big employer)...most of their recruiting is through industry magazine type things (THES and different subjects advertise in different magazines) so maybe a browse through WHSmiths computing magazine section to see if there is anything likely?

Unfortunatly moving isn't the easy option. If I move, then the wife would have to, or we live apart, which doubles bills.

She's an archaeological illustrator you see, and those jobs come up about twice a year. Fortunatly for her she's employed by Oxford Archaeology, the definitive unit in the europe now. Unfortunatley for us, it's not cheap around here. So, if I move for a job, she'd have to give up hers.
One option though is that I get a job near my parents in Peterborough and then kip at theirs during the week, at least until something else comes up.

I've done the Gruaniad website, nowt.
About to start on the University websites now...

How are you on Grid computing? never heard of it (noone ever has)...the supercomputer internet only got set up properly in the UK about 6 months ago and there is a regional e-science centre for it in Oxford...anyone who can code (and I'm sure we're asking for people with .net experience so I would assume oxford would be too) is in huge demand....hold on I'll find the link to the job were advertising and the grid website.

Dunno if this will work because they've mucked about with internal/external access recently but:
http://webext.mics.soton.ac.uk/adminweb/jsp/jobs/jobs.jsp
and
http://www.e-science.soton.ac.uk/ is the soton centre

http://e-science.ox.ac.uk/ is the oxford centre and they're advertising this job:
http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/~wpcadm2/jobs/smad.html

Cheers

Why do they always ask for degree? Humph. I code with degree educated lads, and they aren't educated.

Ignore the degree request...it's uni's they're obsessed with em. It's worth applying the worst they can do is say no and if they're so narrow minded then it is their loss.

To be honest with you the job at soton has been advertised on and off for about 6 months....there *isn't* anyone out their with the right experience *and* a degree. The whole of the GRID community is having huge problems recruiting because they're suddenly realised that most graduates/academics don't know any more computing than a bit of fortran and VB (or in my case C which I've completely forgotten and was enough to convince me that I'll never be a prgrammer).

And computer science graduates from the really good courses (sotons, warwick and oxbridge) are all headhunted to work in industry...they don't want to spend their time nannying a bunch of academics through developing software to advance their research (A guy on my C course got headhunted *in the first yr at uni* for a job paying £50k...and most of the CS graduates can expect at least £30k...and the computing graduates from the newer unis are just p**s poor and haven't been taught anything that is of much use in the real world...there is no inbetween).

In other words...give it a shot...if you feel like you've got the knowledge, experience, skills they ask for you are more likely to get in than someone fresh out of luton uni with an information technology degree

Very well put!

Really? I thought I was rambling again.

*wonders off pretending to be articulate*

*wanders in*

*reads 2 pages of backlog*

*convinces himself he's in the wrong thread*

*wanders out*

B

Hah! It's your journal!

B

poor B, his ego-trip has been hijacked!

Well, I wouldn't mind my journal being hijacked, as long as you don't talk about unemployment on it. It's something of a recurrent subject around here.

B

Something always turns up, it always does. Sometimes it just takes a bit of time!

It's something of a recurrent subject everywhere isn't it? And yet the governmet *still* claim that unemployment is dropping.

I think it is dropping - everyone is working for bosses they hate and doing jobs they loathe

I don't think it is. I think that they've merely changed the names of things, if you're claiming benefit, but working less than 16 hours, you're not technically unemployed anymore.

Reclassify what unemployed actually is, and you can have the figures say anything you want.

A while ago I left my job voluntarily and was therefore unable to claim benefit for 6 months. I wasn't working, but wasn't technically unemployed.

Moving goalposts?

I thought they'd just changed the figures again (and used that as the excuse for the huge rise) to include everyone seeking work (but not those working part time seeking more hours)...I really need to start paying more attention to declan on the breakfast news.

They're constantly changing what they class as unemployed, which has left us all so confused about the whole thing that we've given up understanding.

Hint for a happy life. Never trust a politician. Or, in the words of Chumbawamba before the previous general election...

"Use your cross wisely. Crucify a politician."