March 27, 2002
If you live in urban Pennsylvania, you've probably seen the we-payed-a-guy-20-bucks-for-this commercials urging people to stay in the state. The commercial makes prominent use of Pittsburgh scenes, such as Mt. Washington, Market Square and PPG Plaza. Which makes it all the more pathetic that searching on the Pittsburgh Tech Council Web site has no jobs that I'm qualified for.
And I'm not an incompetent waste of space, either. I know ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, SQL, SQL Server 7, MySQL, Cold Fusion (a little), Java (a little), Perl (a little), CSS and can write completely standards-compliant HTML. What everybody wants, however, are full-fledged programmers who know how to write full, compilable, executable applications; have 10 years of experience; and are willing to work for $45,000 a year.
Maybe they need a commercial for the employers around here: Stop dicking around with people who want to work here, but are being insulted by your offers.
