hello folks,
well after an unexpected delay, I am aiming to move to Portland in April from some time abroad.
Don't have a job lined up yet, and I know the US is [officially?] in a recession, so I was wondering what the job market was like at the moment? I'm concerned cause last time the economy took a dive, 10,000 companies went belly over at the dot-com crunch, and I couldn't find work in the CA bay area for 6 months! Not an experience I'm going to repeat.
I'm looking for either a full/part time position in a nonprofit/ecological job [whose goals I am in-line with] or freelance/part-time/contractual work in the IT industry [who's higher-goals I feel at least neutral about, preferably in-sync].
I'm an 'all-arounder' with skills in programing [Flex, AS2, AS3], project management, IA, application architecture design but also as artist/illustrator, multi-media art installation developer, human interface-performance development, web designer, composer [solo projects, TV, film, theater], and sound engineering.
Thanks for the feelers!
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Sebastian.
well after an unexpected delay, I am aiming to move to Portland in April from some time abroad.
Don't have a job lined up yet, and I know the US is [officially?] in a recession, so I was wondering what the job market was like at the moment? I'm concerned cause last time the economy took a dive, 10,000 companies went belly over at the dot-com crunch, and I couldn't find work in the CA bay area for 6 months! Not an experience I'm going to repeat.
I'm looking for either a full/part time position in a nonprofit/ecological job [whose goals I am in-line with] or freelance/part-time/contractual work in the IT industry [who's higher-goals I feel at least neutral about, preferably in-sync].
I'm an 'all-arounder' with skills in programing [Flex, AS2, AS3], project management, IA, application architecture design but also as artist/illustrator, multi-media art installation developer, human interface-performance development, web designer, composer [solo projects, TV, film, theater], and sound engineering.
Thanks for the feelers!
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Sebastian.
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Thu, March 6, 2008 - 3:01 PMWell, you can always browse www.oregonlive.com/ to get a sense of what's hiring vis-a-vis the newspaper.
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Fri, March 7, 2008 - 12:34 AMAS far as I know, Portland is still going along pretty well... -
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Fri, March 7, 2008 - 11:11 PMif i were you I would seek out potential hiring places rather than asking here
people are going to have way different experiences
i have friends who come here find a job in a couple months and get all set other friends come here find nothing and have to leave
currently have a friend who was here before and was fine left and came back and can't find work at all
you want to see how portland fits you have to get direct exposure not go by what other people say
especially as far as work goes
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Tue, March 11, 2008 - 1:56 AMWell the dot com crash in SF in 2000 was impossible not to feel, everyone felt that one within a 100 mile radius of SF [if not larger] - I'm not in the country right now, and I know the dollar is falling to the Euro, and talks of recessions... etc. so I was just wondering if there was an official 'no-hire' policy going on again like there has been in the past.
My impression though is that this extreme case is not in effect, obviously how easy/hard it will be is dependent on a multitudes of factors, thanks for pointing it out though - as I agree with you completely. Thanks to all of you for taking the time to reply to my posting. I'll be arriving mid April, Youpie! Looking fw. to it.
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Mon, April 21, 2008 - 11:14 PMThe job market here (from my perspective) has been just awful. I know a lot of people out of work, and people not leaving their jobs who otherwise would be out interviewing, because there are so few alternatives when one starts to look around.
That's MY experience, anyway. I'm not saying it's everyone's.
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Tue, May 13, 2008 - 10:14 PMThe eco-job market is pretty saturated here--especially in the non-profit sector. Best of luck, but I'd plan for a few months of unemployment and a year-long wait to find the "right" job--seems to be the average.
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Re: hows the [eco] job market doing?
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 6:21 PMNo worries, Portland's best experienced while unemployed anyways :)
