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Well, it certainly has been a while, hasn\u2019t it? I\u2019ve been unemployed two months at this point and the initial rush of applications, resume re-makes and whatnot are complete and we are heading into the long slog known as summer, where job opportunities, already semi-scarce here in New Hampshire, really dry up. That\u2019s not to say there\u2019s nothing, but there\u2019s certainly no low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n
I finally got my butt in gear on updating my Microsoft Certifications- no excuses there, just a reluctance to spend hours in my basement office reading prep books and building VM\u2019s. Now I look at it as my job, since the actual job search takes me all of an hour a day unless I have interviews. I check Monster, JobsinNH, Career Builder and one or two other sites, e-mail off to anything that looks tempting and I\u2019m done- so it\u2019s back to the books.<\/p>\n
Another possibility is some programming classes- that\u2019s an admitted weak spot in the resume<\/a> seeing as I have always been primarily a hardware and OS guy. I harbor no illusions about becoming a programmer, but a solid grounding in the basics seems like a damned good idea. That and working on my scripting- I was getting good at it when I was let go and simply haven\u2019t practiced since then and that\u2019s absolutely vital, so it\u2019s VB and PowerShell scripting for me.<\/p>\n