Excerpt
From: Jesse Dailey
To: Jon Katz
When I was looking on the Tribune, there were 433 jobs under Computer/Info
Systems, under every other category I looked in there was an average of
15-20.... A total of about 40% computers. The problem now isn't finding a place
in which those jobs are in demand, because like you say ... they are everywhere.
The problem is finding a place that wants to hire someone like me. In a Human
Resources kinda way I'm defined as 19 w/ one year of experience.... In reality,
I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive
intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online
material in the world. Aarrgghh!! too much stress being a geek on the move.:)
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Jesse and Eric lived in a cave-an airless two-bedroom apartment in a dank
stucco-and-brick complex on the outskirts of Caldwell. Two doors down, chickens
paraded around the street.
The apartment itself was dominated by two computers that sat across from the
front door like twin shrines. Everything else-the piles of dirty laundry, the
opened Doritos bags ... read full excerpt from: Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho ebook
