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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
Cc:        <danl@freebsddiary.org>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2002-07-07 - 2002-07-27
Message-ID:  <20020730204706.N10245-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <200207301520.g6UFK6h71756@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>

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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, mark tinguely wrote:
> >  Monster.Com only lists 24 jobs matching "freebsd" nationwide :(
> >  http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch.asp?cy=US&re=14&brd=1&lid=&q=freebsd&sort=rv&vw=b
>
> PS to Peter Leftwich's observation. The FreeBSD and generic BSD job availabilties on the national boards have been decreasing or flat for several months.
>    I started collecting the numbers for dice, hotjob, and monster for almost every weekday since March to quantify the trends. I wish I had started spring 2001 to show the logrithmic decrease in jobs (halving about every 6 weeks).

Many (if not all) of these websites have a feature called JobAgent or
CareerFairy or something like that where the user can specify to receive
once-daily or once-weekly keyword searches via email.  I wonder if any of
these technical sites actually have a category (i.e. dropdown selection)
for OS and a choice of "BSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/BSDI" or the like.  Hrmm.

>    You do not have to be an old-timer to remember when freebsd-jobs was exclusively job offers. Then it became a flood of "looking for work", just before the stock market tanked (for the first time). now it is dead.

Cool!  Is that a mail list too, freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org ? Or.. *was* it?

>    Our sector will take a while to recover. Use the national boards as a tool, but also use your network of contacts.
> --Mark Tinguely

I wish "we" were as popular as Linux!!  Grumble.  I tell people I use
FreeBSD and they give me a facial expression that can only be described as
their having heard that I "free-base" as in, the drogues...

Anyways - We'll get there.  FreeBSD desperately *needs* a better
/stand/sysinstall, more documentation written in a step by step manner and
including some kind of file called "Transition from User to Root/Sysadmin"
or the like.  It would go on to say things plainly, like "Familiarize
yourself with fdisk, mount, fsck, LINT, dmesg, /etc/*, and so forth..."

Also, not that I have any clue where money comes from for these projects
but computer stores could sell packets of two (2) floppies, kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp and be labelled "FreeBSD FTP-Install Diskettes for High
Bandwidth Users" or then again maybe not.  :(

--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555


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