On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Alan Porter wrote: > > ...at the level somebody with a PhD in Electrical Engineering > > should get. > > Ah, so Home Depot is hiring again? [1] > > [1] Not slamming on your room-mate in particular, but it's sad how > hard the EE market is these days. I do know at least one working > at Home Depot, and a few others who are out of work completely. >
On an oddly related note, about 5 years ago I applied for a job at Home Depot when I wanted a part-time, evening/weekend job, and the grocery store I had been working at shut down. I asked to work in the electrical department, because I have some electronics experience and am in general interested in electricity, so I thought it would be a fun area to work. While they offered me a job as a cashier, they turned down my request to work in Electrical, because I had no practical work experience there. Apparently they had enough qualified electricians (and EEs?) applying, that they didn't need someone with only sales/cashiering experience :-) I ended up working at a different grocery store as a bookkeeper and service desk clerk instead, which was actually quite instructive in learning how a large retail business operates - there are many things you can only learn from the inside. Also, I got to catch shoplifters from time to time which was a lot of fun :-) --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
