From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: f43e6,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 10f5bc,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,gid103376,gid10f5bc,gid1108a1,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: topmind Newsgroups: comp.software-eng, comp.lang.ada, comp.software.testing, comp.object Subject: Re: Am I "Overqualified"? Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:43:43 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6db9b650-92c9-4237-8c37-bf9e7fcc75be@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.120.226.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1201729423 32017 127.0.0.1 (30 Jan 2008 21:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.120.226.1; posting-account=i7APvAkAAABVeLm9m7bOpSoPm4pgZM6r User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 4-ISA2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.software-eng:9112 comp.lang.ada:19660 comp.software.testing:7499 comp.object:21909 Date: 2008-01-30T13:43:43-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 30, 1:21=A0pm, Ed Berard wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > It seems that lately, I have been turned down for an increasing number > of assignments, because I am "overqualified." > > I have been doing a good deal of "architecture tasks," as in: > > =A0 =A0* product architecture > > =A0 =A0* product line architectures > > =A0 =A0* process architectures. > > I do tend towards the more formal "C&C" viewpoints. However, I don't > think that this has much to do with my problem. > > If you want, you can chck my resume at the bottom of our home > page: > > =A0 =A0http://www.toa.com > > Any constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Ed That's a code-word for "too old" or "too expensive". Time to lie. Welcome to IT in Amerika. -T-