Indeed.com is your friend. Best job aggregator out there.
iSeries(or whatever) jobs are getting predictably much harder to find, and
in some metro areas IMPOSSIBLE to find. Many iSeries shoppes have been told
"move to windows or go job hunting..."...but then, thanks to Gerstner, this
was predictable.
I HEAVILY suggest that if at all possible you find a way to retool.
Business analytics is a good option to look at. If you want to stay in the
programming realm, you're going to be programming in some variation of C,
java, python, php, etc... You may want to pickup R and python when you get
the time anyway as I have a feeling that they will be near term big players
in the data analytics realm...cognos and spss are IBM, yes, but...the world
is finally waking up to the reality that what's good for IBM isn't
necessarily best for them...
Good luck dude, you've joined a very big club of ex-iSeries'ers that are
having to retool and regroup...thanks to IBM...
-----Original Message-----
From: consult400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:consult400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CRPence
Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:40 PM
To: consult400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Consult400] AS400/iseries/midrange/RPG experience no longer
marketable?
On 05-Feb-2014 08:04 -0800, Robert Lancaster wrote:
<<SNIP>> now live in Salem, Oregon.
If anyone has any thoughts on the market, and/or suggestions on how I
can get back into programming after more than five years "on the
bench", I would greatly appreciate it.
There seems to be a dearth of IBM i in the PNW; I presume, supplanted
long ago by the MS tentacles from Redmond. Most mainframe work will be
COBOL instead of RPG, based on most anything I have read. Being in the
capital city, I would suggest to visit and talk with somebody with the state
employment agency, about what they can do to assist; i.e. a visit, as in
physical presence. As I recall [from job listings], the OR state DoJ uses
IBM i, but all positions [there and throughout OR state gov't] are
"represented" by the interests of those already employed by the state.
Given it is legal to volunteer for a government or non-profit [i.e. the
gov't grants only certain class of /business/ to profit from slavery much as
it does for discrimination], so that may be an option to get some experience
to appear on the resume, since the gap.
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Regards, Chuck
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