I hate looking for work. I know everyone does, even at the best of times.

But times like these, when local jobs have polarized into high paying jobs or low paying jobs and nothing in between, and the local government (who counts for a large percentage of local jobs) has cut down its budget for external contracts to almost nothing, looking for work now feels less like looking for a good fit and more like I’m the victim of a mean-spirited game of “Pig In The Middle”. I’m sure I’m not the only one, either.

I’m starting to feel like I specialized in all the wrong things. Windows instead of linux or Mac.  ColdFusion instead of PHP or Java. Network administration instead of database administration. Technical college instead of a computer sciences degree. Programming instead of design. That, and I was born in the wrong country.

Frustration abounds, and I’ve been essentially out of paid work since July, which kills any relocation budget I might have had.

If anyone reading this has any overflow work or say a lead on a ColdFusion telecommute job or contract position, I’m all over it. Otherwise, thanks for reading anyway and I’ll post my progress.

I recently switched hosts to Media Temple, partly because of some service interruptions on our last host and also as a strategic manoeuvre. I can say without hesitation that this site is much zippier than before – I hope you notice as well. I mean obviously the site doesn’t do anything, but even so I think it’s noticeable. The added benefit to this new host is we now have ultimate power over it, even to the extend of being able to install our ColdFusion license on it.