[lug] 10-minute demos

[Gus Huber]

My concern is recruiters telling me I need 10 years of experience simply
administering a product that I have been writing patches and modules for
other employers for the last 5 years.  Apache as a side note has only
been in existance since late 1995, when it grew out of the NCSA server
project as A-PATCHY version of NCSA which eventualy gained market
dominance.  My question is how to convey to these recruiters he
monumental differences between actualy modifying the functional workings
of apache vs. simply setting up webservers (which is what they are
looking for most of the time).  I am getting fed up with the lack of
intelligence in the human resources sector here in colorado.  It is
enough to make me move on to a more economicly viable region of the
country.

	gus-

-----Original Message-----
>My experience over the last year is that an "intro level job" means 2
to >3 years of experience at something that has existed for 3 years;
mid->
>level means 6 year degree or better, at least 7 years as a senior 
>programmer. Senior level means you have to have been born in the land
of >Oz. But this is the sort of thing I'm looking for a way around. How
to 
>open up the eyes of the employer and get them to look at me, instead of

>throwing the resume into the circular file, looking at finding out if I

>can do the job, rather than asking for unrealistic paper references.