I too am from Ohio. I myself found it difficult to find a company that had a reputable software department and also pay well. So of course I jumped on my first well paying offer. Now I am somewhat regreting it. I tend to do a lot of work on my own. I have yet to have any real team based software tasks. Also within my first 6 months I was asked to darasticly alter a legacy product that was not maintained and retofit it for a new customer. I had no real world experience before this so of course my branch of the code is showing big problems. With that over my head and the expectation that I need to develop another product from the ground up, I am becoming extremely stressed. I guess a question for you, being from Ohio, are there any places that you believe have a good environment for a aspiring coder?

Amongst my many issues with recruiter spam, one of my biggest pet peeves is when recruiters send me emails about jobs without telling me who the company is or what they do. That's kind of a big deal as to whether or not I'm even remotely interested in the position (I'm probably not).

I almost fell for the Robert Half scam when I was looking for a job in the Akron area. It seemed like an interesting position. I gave up when I was forced to navigate their horrendous website that asked for completely irrelevant information. It was literally the worst website I had used in awhile. Then for months I would get offers from them, and every time I asked them to remove me from their lists and delete my profile. They always assured me they would. It got bad enough where I would just respond with a copy and paste of the previous email from the same guy of him assuring me he would remove me.

I just got a call and voicemail from them the other day too. Fortunately no email this time.

This.

I had the same experience (contacted RH about a specific job only to find out it didn't really exist), and continue to get spam emails and calls.

I've told them sure, I'm interested in hearing about what they have but it will have to be better than my current position.

It never, ever is.