I was phoned at work by a headhunter today, who said he'd heard I was a good software developer and who tried (unsuccessfully) to interest me in jobs in financial services IT.

I would have considered this a one-off oddity and ignored it, if it hadn't been for the fact that I had a very similar call from a different headhunter ten days ago (and at the time I did consider it a one-off oddity and ignored it).

So I wonder who's just got hold of my details, and why they think joining the financial services sector is a natural career move for someone whose day job is facilitating embedded software development and whose extracurricular interests revolve around giving things away to people for free.

Don't suppose anyone else has been getting similar calls recently? If it were widespread, I think I'd be less disturbed than if I were being targeted specifically.