When they want to recruit you, you are worthless. When they want to retain you, you are the world

I don't think I'll find employment easy for the moment. With just one sentence, "So you're still doing support?", they compressed all my experience into something simple and brainless. What about my years of experience? My exposure to multiple modules? My cross training? My strong programming orientation?
And this is not coming from the HR department. This came from the agents who approached me, whose role was to put me in the best possible light. Like their HR counterparts, they tried to make me feel lucky that I'm even worth a second of their time. That I'm so useless, I can rot in my current job forever.

I'm not making the same mistakes. I'm not selling myself cheap this time. No surprise pay cuts upon confirmation. No surprise change in working environment when I report to work. Play any tricks and I'll walk. This I promise myself.

-3H2U