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Posted: 7/22/2008 8:30:44 PM EDT

Not many IT jobs in my area unless you want to work tech support for $10/hr

Looking for network admin or something in that area. Thinking of relocating but prefer to stay out west and NOT in Kalifornia. Any suggestions?

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:32:55 PM EDT

[#1]

www.insidetech.com/benefits/2460-the-30-best-cities-for-tech-jobs

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:33:13 PM EDT

[#2]

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Not many IT jobs in my area unless you want to work tech support for $10/hr

Looking for network admin or something in that area. Thinking of relocating but prefer to stay out west and NOT in Kalifornia. Any suggestions?

California cities, technically. But that's obviously out, so my next best suggestion is to look in Texas. It's been a while since I've had to look for an IT job, but it seems to me that among the western states, Texas companies kept popping up on Dice, Monster, etc.

EDIT: Think Dallas, Ft Worth and Auston.

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:34:54 PM EDT

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Not many IT jobs in my area unless you want to work tech support for $10/hr

Looking for network admin or something in that area. Thinking of relocating but prefer to stay out west and NOT in Kalifornia. Any suggestions?

California cities, technically. But that's obviously out, so my next best suggestion is to look in Texas. It's been a while since I've had to look for an IT job, but it seems to me that among the western states, Texas companies kept popping up on Dice, Monster, etc.

That is where I will be relocating to soon.

Linux Systems Engineer, FTW!

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:37:21 PM EDT

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Look in Texas in cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. I work for a very large hosting company in San Antonio and we are always looking for good talent. I cant really say who I work for but if you did a google search for hosting companies in Sa Texas, i am sure you will figure it out. Also, everything in Tejas is legal, if you can carry it you can have it. If you like, send me a IM and i Can give you more info.

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:40:08 PM EDT

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www.insidetech.com/benefits/2460-the-30-best-cities-for-tech-jobs

Portland is #18 on that list? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:43:21 PM EDT

[#6]

Looking for infosec specialists in N. Dallas here.

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:45:40 PM EDT

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Look in Texas in cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. I work for a very large hosting company in San Antonio and we are always looking for good talent. I cant really say who I work for but if you did a google search for hosting companies in Sa Texas, i am sure you will figure it out. Also, everything in Tejas is legal, if you can carry it you can have it. If you like, send me a IM and i Can give you more info.

I think we may be co-workers. IM sent.

Posted: 7/22/2008 8:48:42 PM EDT

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Look in Texas in cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. I work for a very large hosting company in San Antonio and we are always looking for good talent. I cant really say who I work for but if you did a google search for hosting companies in Sa Texas, i am sure you will figure it out. Also, everything in Tejas is legal, if you can carry it you can have it. If you like, send me a IM and i Can give you more info.

I think we may be co-workers. IM sent.

Haha. What would really be great is if one of you was a supervisor who found out the underling was surfing arfcom at work. Not likely, but that shit would be funny.

I do it once in a while.

Posted: 7/22/2008 9:11:25 PM EDT

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www.insidetech.com/benefits/2460-the-30-best-cities-for-tech-jobs

Portland is #18 on that list? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

I USED to work for a company called Rennessaince in Portland. Over by Nike HQ. I THINK it was in one of the old IBM buildings. Might look into them. However. Since then they were bought out by Household (Beaverton) and then HSBC.

I know they seemed to always be looking for talented IT. I was 1 of 3 IT staff at the KY call center for 5 years.

Posted: 7/22/2008 9:13:42 PM EDT

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Look in Texas in cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. I work for a very large hosting company in San Antonio and we are always looking for good talent. I cant really say who I work for but if you did a google search for hosting companies in Sa Texas, i am sure you will figure it out. Also, everything in Tejas is legal, if you can carry it you can have it. If you like, send me a IM and i Can give you more info.

I think we may be co-workers. IM sent.

Haha. What would really be great is if one of you was a supervisor who found out the underling was surfing arfcom at work. Not likely, but that shit would be funny.

I do it once in a while.

I think I figured out who it is.

We don't have much in the way of bosses awake, let alone posting here, at 0100 EST.

Posted: 7/22/2008 9:17:35 PM EDT

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DFW area or Austin

depends on yur skillz
certs only get your foot in the door

if you like outdoor ops then austin area

Posted: 7/22/2008 9:23:57 PM EDT

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Bellevue, WA. For even complete morons (and there's a lot of them since this place is full of Microsoft cultists), we're paying $90k or more per year. It's between Seattle and Redmond(home of Microsoft) so there's a lot of tech companies but very few smart tech people. Out of the 200 or so people I've interviewed only three were as good as the average EE I interviewed in SC. The only downside are the housing prices. My two bedroom 1,000 sq ft condo was over $500k.z

Posted: 7/22/2008 9:39:06 PM EDT

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Not many IT jobs in my area unless you want to work tech support for $10/hr

Looking for network admin or something in that area. Thinking of relocating but prefer to stay out west and NOT in Kalifornia. Any suggestions?

You can't head out to Beaverton and get a gig with Intel?

Unfortunately, Kommiefornia (San Francisco and LA) is going to be your best market on the west coast. I agree with Subnet, Texas will be your next best bet with Dallas and Austin the number one cities.

The Research Triangle (Raleigh-Durham) in North Carolina is still a good job market.

If you're a sadist you could ALWAYS consider the NYC/Newark/Philly corridor. Personally If I was going to head to the N/E I'd be looking in the outlying Boston areas (Waltham, etc.).

Back to the West: The job market in Phoenix is OK, but it's rather limited. Still, you can easily make 65K+ here if you've got a decent skill set. I've got a couple of engineers on my team that make a little over 100K per year (Cisco routing/switching/VoIP/IPCC).