Looking for a new job

The lease for Verio's Austin office space is finally up October 31st. Upper management has decided to close the office and has given everyone who works here until the 31st to find a new job. Some people may have the option to stay with Verio and work from home after the 31st, but I don't think anyone is willing to give up their severance package to do that.

I posted my resume on Dice last week to see if I'd get much interest. I'm willing to relocate to another city because I'm not sure how many jobs there are in Austin for J2EE developers who have specialization in BEA WebLogic app servers. Since I'm willing to relocate, I've received a lot of interest from cities in the NYC, VA, NJ and LA areas. I believe that head hunters like to look for people from cities with a low cost of living and transplant them with minimal salary increases to cities with higher costs of living. It can be very difficult to determine an equivalent salary in different metropolitan area fortunately I discovered this salary calculator to give me a hand.

Salary.com's calculator may be better than the previous one. I evaluates salary ranges for a give position in different metro areas.