Looking in the Classifieds for Jobs,  the Information Technology Section has gotten awfully thin these past two weeks.  I found a temp agaency I had not yet heard of,  and went to their Website.  Many dead links on basic entry points like “Signup”, which went to a GuestBook4Free.com link,  which yielded a “Buy this domain” page,  which means that the domain is no longer active.  In other words,  a dead link,  and an abandoned domain name,  not noticed by the Website’s administrators (which probably don’t exist).

To top it all off,  I found a link to “Submit a resume” and spent 15 minutes filling it out,  and hit “Submit Resume” at the end,  and ,  I shoulda’ known better…..it went to a dead link.  I emailed them and offered my services as a Webmaster,  and what’a ya think happened?  Email came back,  no recipient by that name.  How frustrating that there are companies putting ads in the paper advertising for unemployed people to come use their services,  and their Web service is basically absent; out to lunch; nobody home. 

I want to find a “support group” of unemployed Developers, preferrably in Nashville,  so we can meet and bitch together about the way things are,  and hopefully share some networking tips to make contact with the right places.  I am absolutely shocked at the lack of organized “temp developer pools” ,  given the decrease in available funds for Web development in many companies.  Seems there would be a big demand for such.  I’m sittin’ here thinking I’d do web stuff for 9 or 10 dollars an hour right now.