Knock yourself out …
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Omari’s Sister Website Update Done
Well, I finally did it! I completely re-did my personal website. I used Dreamweaver and all the fancy new tricks I just learned in the class I am taking. I also learned how to use the new Adobe website tool, “Fireworks.” It’s a tool that should be apart of Dreamweaver that can be used to mock up website graphics really fast. Other tools I used were Illustrator for the title graphics and the flowers in the menu bar, Flash to generate the graphics for the menu and to create all of the galleries, and Fireworks for the content graphics. I absolutely LOVE the way it turned out :). I’m so proud of myself. I feel now I can take on any personal or small business advertising website design assignment. Now onto expanding my knowledge of javascript and some server side scripting so I can start putting together more complete solutions. Anyhow, check it out!
Give me a Break! Carly Fiorina
Buwhahahahaha!!!
She says the government should stay out of determining executive pay when a company receives a TARP bailout. Ummm … OH REALLY, Miss-I-was-paid-$20-Million + to-leave-HP-after-failing-as-a-CEO? Does she even understand how much R&D could have been funded with her “failure bonus”? (And that goes to the rest of you tech CEO’s receiving millions in bonuses while cutting R&D spending and jobs …)
Buwahahahahaha!!! Whooo!!! My sides hurt!!! I can’t stop laughing!!!!
Here’s a link to the nonsense that dribbled out of Ms. Fiorina’s mouth.
Getting a Job as an Engineer Might be like Winning the Lottery
I decided to do a thought experiment to discourage myself further about the prospect of finding a job anytime soon. Here’s some loosey-goosey estimations for you: The combined populations of LA and San Diego in 2006 are ~13-Million. ~37% of those people are under the age of 18 or over 65, which leaves 8.2 Million within working age. Let’s say 75% of those people want to work or are working, and, of those, 8% are unemployed. This means there are ~490K people unemployed and looking for work in LA and SD. Now let’s say 1/0 of these folks are engineering professionals (and yes, it could be true because this recession is more about professions getting laid-off than non), and that leaves 49K engineers looking for jobs. Now, for the past 30-days, there are 1209 postings for Engineering positions on the Monster board. This does not exclude the bogus listings for sign twirlers, pyramid scams, and hollywood extras along with duplicate listings. So being conservative, for every job opening, there are ~40 engineers who can fill each req. HAHAHAHA!!!! And big business claims there’s a severe lack of engineering, math, science majors in the US. I call “BS” on all of you! So I wonder … which will come first, me winning something in the state lottery or me getting a job …
Here’s a link to Quick Facts from the Census Board. Have fun!
US Govt Jobs
Need a job? Why not work for the government? My Dad is recently retired from the govt and is now receiving a very nice pension that pays him nearly as much as he did when he worked. I’m now considering getting a govt job, because I would like to retire at 60 with 80% of my pay :). Here’s a link to the US govt jobs website.
More Rambling 