1. Talk to your manager
2. Lose the tunnel vision
3. Find a mentor
4. Show off your writing skills
5. Be a joiner
6. Work for free
7. Become an entrepreneur

8) Change careers.

1. Find something you like to do.

2. Find someone willing to pay you enough money to do it.

Improve your job situation? I'd add:

1. Use the contacts of people that have left your work.

Under the current climate, when people leave their jobs, quite a few of them end up in positions with better pay.

2. When job hunting don't go on past experiences in failure.

Nows the time to submit your resume for the type of jobs that 4 years ago your application failed to get.

3. Embellish your resume to make it look senior.

Unsurprisingly there is a shortage of senior people and most employers are looking optimistically for someone to replace that person who just left for senior pay. Note how they want to confirm to themselves that the individual was easily replaceable, find a way to affirm their decision.

HINT: just say "yes" to everything during the review.

4. Be a bit arrogant. In the same way as how guys pull chicks at bars.

Talk like "pff...there never was a dot com bust, I've always found heaps of work and I get paid plenty" - this will win over naff HR chicks.

Whereas don't say: "Yep I've gone through tough times and I'm better for it".

This gives the impression to a naff HR chick that you're the kinda guy that doesn't pull chicks because the other girls don't like you for some reason that she'll never understand.

During the interview, comment about her good looks and shiney bracelet.

If they act a little serious, comment about her business savy and tell her that you think she's a serious business leader.

Hey Dimes old bean...IT sucks and I'm going to keep telling the world about it!!

@UnemployedITer... Mate seriously, if you've got nothing constructive to say then just forget it. Seems like every second post you are ranting about how bad IT is. If it's so bad then leave it behind and move on instead of writing bitter posts on forums. I'm sorry bout this negative post but I like working in IT (and I know all about it's failings - you don't need to tell me) and I like getting useful info from this forum. I've been reading these posts for a while and I'm yet to see you contribute anything other than depressing bitter rubbish... Like I said if it's so bad then tell your story walking.

Screw you, you IT loser.

Like I said if it's so bad then tell your story walking.

Mate,

You have to understand everyone's point of view..

There's obviously enough time in your day to post here not once but twice. Dude, get a PlayStation or something.

Excuse my ignorance if this is a well known fact but I'm interested; What caused this anger to manifest itself?

Couldn't quite grasp recursion? Subnetting get the better of you? ..or just didn't fit in with the crowd?

Whether you adhere to Dimes suggestion or not doesn't bother me. Perhaps one day we'll all come crawling back and hold you up in praise.

I love you, UnemployedITer

Thats great - I love me too. Now get back to work Macca .. I need my dole cheque.

6. Work for free

You've gotta be S**ting me.

Working for free will do one thing and one thing only. It will ensure your the guy who does the late shifts, weekend work and the "give it to ______, s/he won't mind".

Do this and say good bye to your spare time...

Just to prove how much I am against giving out free time, my contract hours are for 8 exactly.

I will happily walk out the door at 5pm, regardless of current workloads as if I work one second after 5 I don't get paid for it. I also ensure I don't work anything less than my 8 hours.

I have done far better doing that than when I used to "work for free". I am now on 4 times as much, I'm finding it just as easy to get contracts (in fact easier, as they now take me as a serious It professional, companies like people whom state a price, it makes their life easy)

Har hars UnemployedITer. Even Great Leopard not so funny is you! Performance is the real comedy chops.