The job search continues. I don’t suffer from a lack of options, but I’ve made a few surprising (to me) observations:

• ISV work is hard to come by in this town
• I’m paid very well at my current position, if the pushback I’m getting on my salary requirements is any indication
• Recruiters seem to favor the phone over email, much to my chagrin

• Recruiters seem to regard the details of their various opportunities as classified information until they’re on the phone with you. A few recruiters have emailed me with a message to the effect of “I’ve got an opportunity doing [something] with [something] using [something] at [somewhere] that I think you’d be great for”, but most of them hit me with “I’ve got some .NET/C# work. Call me.”

  In order to understand why this is annoying, you have to consider my situation. I have very specific opportunities in mind, and I do not expect recruiters to divine those requirements from my resume, and only solicit me if they think I’m a match. Thus, I expect to reject the majority of opportunities coming across my desk. If I have to call back to get details, I’m wasting the recruiter’s time and mine, when I could just peruse an email, hit “Reply”, fire off a quick “thanks but it’s not for me”, and be done with it.

• Goverment work is hard to get away from
• There are alot of Microsoft Certified Partners!

There are a couple of positions I’ve applied for (that’s right, applied. As in, no recruiter!) that I’m particularly interesting in, but nothing has come in from a recruiter that sounded particularly interesting.

In the meanwhile, it’s not so bad being back on my old DoS project for a little while.