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In case you didn't notice, this economy sucks!
OK, I'm pissed off! After damn near 20 years of a fairly successful career in programming, two weeks ago I felt the cruel edge of the economic blade and got laid off my job of 3 years. I am not used to being unemployed. Now, I have to come to terms with just what the fsck is going on.
And that's exactly the problem. I'm pissed off. But I (and, presumably, everyone else that's in a similar situation) have no effective outlet for my anger. Sure, I can rage at the chuckleheads that ran this great country straight into terrain, but I can't do anything about it. There are simply too many of them. Even punching Alan Greenspan in the nose wouldn't help, because it won't fix anything!
I do not like feeling powerless.
$DEITY save me from pulling shots at Starbucks. I have to believe that I am not the only person suffering from this mindset. So many of us have done all the right things to establish and promulgate a reasonable career. And yet, the economy is in a deadly tailspin that is bringing all of us down with it. None of us, at the individual level, have the slightest control over how our way of life is crashing into the ground. I hope I'm not the only one pissed off, but I wonder what's going to happen when the number of pissed-off people reaches a critical mass. Are we to see flames in the streets? Sadly, I can't rule that outcome out.
Meanwhile, if you need a good systems-level programmer with kernel driver experience, maybe you can drop me a line.
