Reply #22: Gave up looking

[Virginian]

My IT job went to an H-1b employee in 2003.

I had never had a problem finding a job before, I thought it would be easy to find another one at my salary level. My interviews were few and far between. I was hoping John Edwards would become VP in 2004 and have some influence in this matter. I thought he would recognize that importing foreign workers was contributing to "Two Americas". I also thought that as long as Bush was in office, the H-1b quotas would go up and up.

With over 20 years of IT experience, I finally found an unskilled job. I now work two or three days a week. It was four days but they had to cut back. I have been out of the field too long now. I am older and most schools did not offer IT degrees in my day so, I don't have one. I majored in education but ran out of money, found a job in IT and dropped out my junior year. I worked my way up from operator to Junior Programmer to Programmer to senior programmer and had a lot of other titles which had the words "analyst", "engineer" and "developer" in them. I have even had the title of "manager".
It would be a miracle if I ever found an IT job again.

"What Y2K problem?" - me (1998)
"Importing so many foreign workers to take our better paying jobs is not good for America. Sooner or later, it will have an impact on our economy." - me (2001)