Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Decibel!
Subject Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand?
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Msg-id 10ED743A-CF25-4384-84CC-272224895921@decibel.org
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In response to Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:36:07 -0600
> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
>>> Having been through a job search in this area myself recently, I
>>> can say it takes a certain amount of faith (or, in my case,
>>> technical fascism) to consider a career working with Postgres
>>> given how the relatively low number of open positions out there.
>>
>> Wow, really? I typically average one call a month from someone
>> trying to hire me... Postgres experience seems to be in high demand
>> compared to the supply. If anything, ISTM that the ability to hire
>> folks discourages companies from using Postgres.
>
> The postgresql market is one of who you know, not what you know. The
> smart employers troll this list. I too have received half a dozen
> offers in the last year.

Actually, I think many of my hits actually come from my resume,
though my posts on the lists are what make google lub me.

> I just tell them they have zero idea what they are getting into if
> they
> hire me ;)

I'll make sure and tell the folks at work that ;P
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect  decibel@decibel.org
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