I'm looking for work in St. Louis, which is a bigger market than Tulsa... so I thought, what a great oportunity to move into a development position. Ha. I've had about a half a dozen conversations with recruiters. All of them dangle the carrot of development work and all of them try to suggest IT work instead. Today's worst conversation went something like this:
Her: So I ran acrossed your resume yesterday on Dice.com. We have a client that is about to higher 10 C++ programmers and I think that you would be a great fit.Me: Yeah that sounds great.Her: So what kind of professional programming experience do you have?Me: Essentially none, all of my programming experience is academic... *thinks to himself 'Did you read my resume?*Her: Oh well our client really is looking for applicants that have two years of professional experience. So I really don't think that you're a good fit.Me: *thinking 'Then why are you wasting my time calling?'*Her: But I do have some other positions that I think would be a better fit for you. I have a listing for a LAN administrator.
Me: No thanks. I'm really only looking for development work.
Her: Are you sure? I think you'd be a really great fit for this LAN Administrator position.
Me: I didn't get a Bachelor's Degree, let alone my Master's Degree, so that I could work in IT.
Her: Really?
Me: Yeah. Call me when you have some development work.
