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Region
4 Update
The job market
is getting better in this area. After several nearly silent months
on the Hoosier job board, we've been consistently enjoying 2-5 postings
on the board at a time for the last few months. The pharmaceutical
industry in this area always has openings, because Eli Lilly can
keep contractors on for only 18-months at a time (after a year off,
you can go back for another 18-month stint). Anecdotally, a friend
of mine lost his job and had a job at Lilly less than a week later,
before his severance pay from his previous job had run out!
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Things
are going pretty well in the Hoosier chapter. We just had our organizational
meeting, and we have some big plans for the coming year and a growing
volunteer base. We're focusing on ways to maintain our chapter in
the face of The Transformation without shutting out nonmembers or
charging for meetings. Currently we have enough money in the bank
to keep us going for a few years while we ride out the storm, but
we're already looking into other ways to maintain financial solvency
if we need to. For example, we've got an arrangement with Amazon.com
to send the Hoosier chapter a referral fee when people click through