unstoppable
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Meet Bob.
Bob knew a little bit about programming, a little bit about fixing PC's.
He stumbled into a job where he made $70,000 a year basically telling computer idiots they should reboot their PC's when they ran into problems with that Excel spreadsheet.
Lucky for Bob, that usually worked. Sometimes he had to clear out a cache, or perhaps uninstall a Garfield screensaver when things really got complicated. When he couldn't fix something, he usually just blamed Microsoft and everyone in the room had a nice chuckle.
In a late 90's market with such a shortage of techies, Bob was anything but uncommon. Overvalued, over-appreciated (despite poor hygeine), and primarily overpaid.
Sometimes, when the Bob's of the industry could communicate on a higher level than just stuttering about the latest sci-fi novel, they got promoted to middle-management positions where they did even less work for even more money.
The last few years however, the Bob's of the tech industry have been getting cut left and right as companies drowning in debt look for places to trim the fat.
Bob of course is understandably upset. Though he received a nice severance package to ease the pain and to maintain his 10MBps DSL line, his massive house, and the 500 digital channels of $h!t on his TV to choose from.
But here's where the wheat gets separated from the Bobs.
Bob returns home. Bob blames his company. Bob blames society. Bob plays foozball. Bob naps.
While leeching from his his wife or his mommy to make his SUV payments, Bob half-heartedly looks for work for months. Months turn into years and Bob's job searching efforts consist of once an afternoon Monster.com searches where he looks for positions paying $70k as an all pro web designer somewhere....preferably near the ocean....after all, Bob likes a breeze.
"It's so hard to find a job, and these bills are piling up. Soon I'll have to switch to cable broadband and perhaps not eat at Chili's every night." complains every tech industry Bob I've ever met.
Suck it up and get a fû¢king job at Kinkos Bob. Just for a while. Sell your SUV and get a vehicle that gets more than 4 miles to the gallon. Trim the fat Bob. Stop leeching off those around you and grow some cohones and a spine, Bob.
Face the fact that if you were any good at what you do, you would be employed right now. Maybe a career change is in order. Did you know most people have on average 11 careers in their lifetimes, Bob? Maybe landscaping is more your thing. Corporations are soul suckers with no payoff at the end of a long road anyway. See it as being let out of the hamster wheel if you have to. But get a fû¢king job.
And no, your idea for a website that sells soup isn't going any fû¢king place.
Besides, what do you think happens when the legions of little Billy's, who all went to college because their mom told them they were "good with that confounded PC" get out and flood the market over the next few years? You'll be even more fû¢king irrelevant, Bob, and you'll have a big fû¢king one or two year gap on your resume that tattoos you as a lazy fû¢king $h!thead. HR managers smell laziness like dogs on the hunt Bob, you're not fooling anyone.
So, if you want, feel free to sit on your sofa watching Akira for the 8,000th time while your non-confrontational wife drops thinly veiled hints that you're a useless loaf. But don't come bitching to us when you're forced to sell your i-pod after a year and a half of unemployment
GET A JOB BOB
Bob knew a little bit about programming, a little bit about fixing PC's.
He stumbled into a job where he made $70,000 a year basically telling computer idiots they should reboot their PC's when they ran into problems with that Excel spreadsheet.
Lucky for Bob, that usually worked. Sometimes he had to clear out a cache, or perhaps uninstall a Garfield screensaver when things really got complicated. When he couldn't fix something, he usually just blamed Microsoft and everyone in the room had a nice chuckle.
In a late 90's market with such a shortage of techies, Bob was anything but uncommon. Overvalued, over-appreciated (despite poor hygeine), and primarily overpaid.
Sometimes, when the Bob's of the industry could communicate on a higher level than just stuttering about the latest sci-fi novel, they got promoted to middle-management positions where they did even less work for even more money.
The last few years however, the Bob's of the tech industry have been getting cut left and right as companies drowning in debt look for places to trim the fat.
Bob of course is understandably upset. Though he received a nice severance package to ease the pain and to maintain his 10MBps DSL line, his massive house, and the 500 digital channels of $h!t on his TV to choose from.
But here's where the wheat gets separated from the Bobs.
Bob returns home. Bob blames his company. Bob blames society. Bob plays foozball. Bob naps.
While leeching from his his wife or his mommy to make his SUV payments, Bob half-heartedly looks for work for months. Months turn into years and Bob's job searching efforts consist of once an afternoon Monster.com searches where he looks for positions paying $70k as an all pro web designer somewhere....preferably near the ocean....after all, Bob likes a breeze.
"It's so hard to find a job, and these bills are piling up. Soon I'll have to switch to cable broadband and perhaps not eat at Chili's every night." complains every tech industry Bob I've ever met.
Suck it up and get a fû¢king job at Kinkos Bob. Just for a while. Sell your SUV and get a vehicle that gets more than 4 miles to the gallon. Trim the fat Bob. Stop leeching off those around you and grow some cohones and a spine, Bob.
Face the fact that if you were any good at what you do, you would be employed right now. Maybe a career change is in order. Did you know most people have on average 11 careers in their lifetimes, Bob? Maybe landscaping is more your thing. Corporations are soul suckers with no payoff at the end of a long road anyway. See it as being let out of the hamster wheel if you have to. But get a fû¢king job.
And no, your idea for a website that sells soup isn't going any fû¢king place.
Besides, what do you think happens when the legions of little Billy's, who all went to college because their mom told them they were "good with that confounded PC" get out and flood the market over the next few years? You'll be even more fû¢king irrelevant, Bob, and you'll have a big fû¢king one or two year gap on your resume that tattoos you as a lazy fû¢king $h!thead. HR managers smell laziness like dogs on the hunt Bob, you're not fooling anyone.
So, if you want, feel free to sit on your sofa watching Akira for the 8,000th time while your non-confrontational wife drops thinly veiled hints that you're a useless loaf. But don't come bitching to us when you're forced to sell your i-pod after a year and a half of unemployment
GET A JOB BOB
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