Perhaps it would be more accurate to say "I'm actually /attempting/ to 
find work again". Because for quite a while, I simply gave up. It's too 
intractably difficult.

It's the weirdest thing though... First one of the girls in the office 
emailed me with a job. Usually that means something involving computers, 
but otherwise laughably unsuitable. ("You do something about computers, 
right?") But this one was actually a Windows system administrator, just 
a few miles from my front door. That's pretty much exactly what I'm after.

And then my sister emailed me three further jobs, which are all in my 
home town and all involve computer programming of one sort or another.

So without performing a single search operation, I've already got 4 jobs 
to apply for. Really /ideal/ jobs. I updated my CV a bit and sent those out.

That was this weekend. On Monday I logged back into Linked-In for the 
first time in several years. It still insists that my profile is "65% 
complete" and that I should "finish" it by adding the rest of my 
achievements. "No no, I don't /have/ any more achievements!" Still, what 
does a machine know?

I tweaked a little bit of the data, but basically all of it is still 
correct. It's not like I've /done/ anything in 3 years. And then I 
logged out.

Now suddenly I'm getting phone calls every few hours from agents asking 
me if I'm interested in this job or that job. Mostly hard-core 
programming jobs, almost all in my city. So I /still/ haven't done any 
searching, and yet I've applied for several jobs at this point.

(Actually, that's not true. I did a job search on Linked-In. The result 
was garbage. The /only/ parameters I put in where that it be an IT job 
and somewhere near to where I live. Apparently the site does not 
understand what "near to where I like" means. This seems to be a 
pervasive problem with job search engines...)

I always knew there must /be/ IT jobs in my city. And yet, I've never 
been able to find any. It's as if they're all invisible or something. 
And now, suddenly I seem to be being showered with suitable jobs. (Well, 
maybe not "showered". More like "lightly drizzled on".)

And the baffling thing is... I have absolutely no idea how all these 
agents have suddenly got hold of my telephone number and email address. 
I can't figure out whether it's Linked-In, or one of the sites I applied 
for a job through, or what. All the agents seem to have "seen my CV on 
the Internet", but I haven't figured out how yet...

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