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There is no such things as a sure thing. Despite the uncertainty of a bad job market I was unemployed for about a month from my last job. Not bad but it was typical of the past several years.

Why was I unemployed for just one month? Well, once you get a resume like mine  you get tons of jobs presented to you after posting online. I wanted to stay in Tampa but was tempted by the lure of lots more $$$ by sacrificing location for employment. The economy in North Carolina for IT is way better than Florida.

I was told by my consulting company that they have more consultants in a nearby city of 200,000 people then the entire state of Florida which has millions of people. Not really surprising with my job hunt in Florida after weeks of searching.

I probably could have found something if I was able to wait a few more months. I’m hoping I  can eventually land back in Tampa (or Central/South Florida) at some point maybe next year. Maintaining and expanding your network is the only thing you can do all the time to keep yourself employed in any economy. LinkedIn is great for this.

I’ve never spent much time learning about refactoring and decided to do some research on refactoring in Eclipse. I did this the other day for a few reasons including:

• I was curious on how I could improve my code structure.
• I was wondering how I could utilize the Eclipse refactoring tools to save time.
• I just wanted to have better quality code in the least amount of time possible.

I learned a lot about utilizing the refactoring  tools built into Eclipse. Through my research and practice using them I realized just how powerful and amazing they can be.  I would like to recommend this article “Refactoring for everyone How and why to use Eclipse’s automated refactoring features”.

Reading this article and/or doing research about refactoring features in Eclipse will be a big boost to your programming productivity.