Re: What to Do?

[Robert Love <rlove@neosoft.com>]

>>>>> "RL" == Robert Love <rlove@neosoft.com> writes:


    RL> Here on New Year's Eve I went to Monster.com and did a search
    RL> on Ada.  I came with with 735 hits.  Now you have to weed out
    RL> the ones where "ADA" is the Americans with Disabilities Act
    RL> and where American Dieticians Association registered personnel
    RL> are being sought.  Lets say that rules out 25%.  Now you have
    RL> many ads where the job description text says "C/C++/Ada" where
    RL> it is really not an Ada job (why are HR types so frustrating
    RL> to deal with?).  Lets say we're down to 350 jobs.  Of these,
    RL> many have multiple openings.  So I'd say there are good job
    RL> opportunities.

Following up on my earlier posting I read the text of many of the
735 ads posted on monster.  I'm revising the number of valid 
entries downward to about 200.   There are new, clumsy uses of 
the phrase "ada".  It used to be that you would see this as
a keyword in ads for HR people, meaning they would have to have
an understanding of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Now I
see it in software ads but having nothing to do with our favorite
language.  Now its being used to mean "being able to sit and work
at a computer terminal".  Now I would think that this is a given
for anyone wishing to become a programmer.  Damn lawyers.

Also, way too many of the ads were about translating Ada to C++.


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