I was reading the local craigslist for my city, Las Vegas, and came across some complaints that pretty much confirms how bad the IT industry is here in Las Vegas. For a fairly big town with lots of money involved and they take IT as a very low priority. It seems like if you don't serve cocktails or deal cards they don't think you're worth anything.
Example:
RE: IT Jobs in Vegas (Las Vegas) -
And check this one out for the rest:
las vegas systems/networking jobs classifieds - craigslist
I can also confirm that other people feel the same way about the Casinos, a coworker at my previous job worked at the Wynn and he didn't have much good to say about them either.
As for my own situation, I'm still unemployed but I'm waiting for a internship since there isn't much out there that fits my college schedule that I have now. The economy is making a internship hard right now though, the companies don't want to do it since it's like hiring a regular employee. So I'm thinking about volunteering at my college until summer time.
When summer time hits, the internship program is supposed to change. The pay for interns is supposed to be a donation to the school so it wouldn't be taxed (actually a tax rebate for the company), so it should be easy to get a internship in the summer.
