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Subject:Re: Acceptable salary levels From:Jim Curran <jcurran -at- VNET -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Jan 1995 20:23:58 GMT
In <2F1384CE -at- SmtpOut -dot- em -dot- cdc -dot- gov>, "Sandy, Corinne" <CHS8 -at- cpsod1 -dot- em -dot- cdc -dot- gov>
writes:
> If you can't get it there, do
>what I did. Move! From Chicago (a saturated area with too many people
>looking for work and not enough jobs available) to Atlanta where I was able
>to find a tw position in 4 months (I had been out of the field for 4 years!)
>and am now possibly going to a new position that will pay me 6K more than
>I'm making now!
I'm moving TO Chicago. It took me under a month to find a _very_ good
job there.
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Jim Curran "It looks just like a Telefunken
Information Developer U-47. You'll love it."
RTP, NC USA - FZ