I am happy with my current job, but still read the job postings. I like to see what skills/technologies/projects others are looking for as a way to figure out what I need to learn. It's a form of professional development. ;>)
Cheers, Paul
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Paul R Butler
Assistant Systems Librarian
Simpson Library
University of Mary Washington
1801 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
540.654.1756
libraries.umw.edu

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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Moynihan, Terry
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 9:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!

I can't believe that after being on this board for 4+ years, this is the first time I'm going to write, and it has nothing to do with code. 

I can't understand why this would be an issue in a profession (librarian) that is very tiny compared to most. I also can't understand why it would be a problem when 50% of college graduates can't get any job let alone one in their field. The US and World economies stink, and more jobs have been lost than ever before in the history of the world. There are still 100's of millions of people without any job and a few job postings are an issue??

Perhaps a step back to the reality of what's really important in life...

Terry
(Software engineer in a corporate library)

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Summers
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 9:17 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!

Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't come up sooner :-) In the interests of "science" I've created a little poll to indicate whether you think the job postings should be sent to the code4lib mailing list or not:

    http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-emails

If you care either way just click yes or no and I'll report the results. But if you can't wait I made the spreadsheet public:

    http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-email-spreadsheet

//Ed

PS. Just fyi, shortimer will *not* re-post jobs to the discussion list if the posting was discovered there. Typically the job postings that shortimer posts to code4lib have been pulled from a source other than the mailing list, which met some curatorial criteria as being relevant for the code4lib community. If you care about influencing this criteria I encourage you to help curate [1] the jobs.

[1] http://jobs.code4lib.org/curate/