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GreaterNYCDude says

How do you find it in your areas?

Fine by me from my observations in Chicagoland. Jobs and housing.

PeopleUnited says

Our business, not IT, continues to grow and add staff.

And what, I may ask, is your business?

WookieMan says

GreaterNYCDude says

How do you find it in your areas?

Fine by me from my observations in Chicagoland. Jobs and housing.

Good to know. East Coast / Northeast may be in trouble. Mostly anecdotal, but I've seen this movie before if you know what I mean.

mell says

What is your field and what are you interested in doing?

East Coast. Chemical engineer with an Environmental sub specialty. Have been consulting on the side since 2018. Considering going full time in the Pollution control space; very little innovation over the past 40 years. Know the lay of the land and have a few contacts. It's always been a cylical market. The goal is to be test / prototype now and reap the rewards a few years out once things bounce back.

Edit: I'm tired of working for someone else, baring a mutually beneficial match between their capabilities and my skill set in a high level role.

GreaterNYCDude says

East Coast. Chemical engineer with an Environmental sub specialty. Have been consulting on the side since 2018. Considering going full time in the Pollution control space; very little innovation over the past 40 years.

Not remotely my expertise. My 0.2¢ I'm not certain environmental is going to be well funded the next 3 years. No or limited grants federally. Seems like an industry that needs that. I could be 100% wrong though.

If you're skilled, someone will offer a job or as you said start your own gig. Might involve moving is all. I don't know the NYC area at all since 2 visits as a kid. Seems like people are fleeing. So might be actually a good opportunity to fill the void if you go the self employed route.

GreaterNYCDude says

Edit: I'm tired of working for someone else, baring a mutually beneficial match between their capabilities and my skill set in a high level role.

Know that feeling. Being in cloud computing and having delivered scalable systems for decades I am starting my own company when time permits, essentially an investment fund. I have annualized returns from trading for many years of 20%+ and it's time to focus more on it. I asked because I have been gauging interest on patnet to partner before, but really only @Rin is in the same entreptemeurial field and does his own thing. I have a couple of friends and one fund manager interested but haven't had enough time to move forward with paperwork yet.

Update. I stumbled into a new role a couple of weeks ago. Offer was too good to pass up. I'm still going to do my own thing on the side but for now I'm keeping my head down on my main gig since I want to have an immediate positive impact.

I still find the hiring process strange. One or two conversations and bang. Your hired. No multiple rounds with this team and that team, despite being a high level role. They found me, liked what they saw and the rest just seem to fall into place. When you know, you know. It's like dating only quicker and less costly, though often more painful when it doesn't go well.

Congrats!

GreaterNYCDude says

I still find the hiring process strange. One or two conversations and bang. Your hired. No multiple rounds with this team and that team, despite being a high level role. They found me, liked what they saw and the rest just seem to fall into place.

This is how it was before google started the whole modern hiring process fad and everybody else decided to ape it.

Being on the "finding" side it works in my favor. Less red tape is better. Having sat on the "hiring" side, it's always bothered me that we make a decision based on one or two conversations, but why put people through the wringer, just because you can. That's how you loose potential talent. It also surprises me how many mediocre candidates there are out there. Good people are always employable.

Eric Holder says

GreaterNYCDude says

I still find the hiring process strange. One or two conversations and bang. Your hired. No multiple rounds with this team and that team, despite being a high level role. They found me, liked what they saw and the rest just seem to fall into place.

This is how it was before google started the whole modern hiring process fad and everybody else decided to ape it.

Don't forget Chindians lying on their resumes. You can't trust a single word there anymore.