[nsantos]

Haha! Well, one can hope, I suppose. Except, this time of the year, the Philippines' hiring scene gets to be pretty sucky. Fogeys like me get to "compete" with boatload after boatload of fresh grads with nothing but two months of Visual Basic experience, an ignorance the impossible, and a hankering for a paycheck (regardless of the number of zeroes). Companies figure they can train these chumps and overwork them, then reap the profits.

The fogeys come in afterwards, to clean up the mess (if we're lucky).

But, while it'd be nice to get offers because of this, I'm more interested in the lessons. Plus, I suppose there's a feeling of betrayal, because, as I mentioned earlier, I know one of the people running the company. (To get this out of the way, there are reasons, which I can't discuss, as to why I can't simply walk up to them and tell them to either pay up or take my resumé down.)