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Internships in the Post-DotCom Era?
aetherspoon asks: "Reading the Internship at Microsoft story, I was wondering what paid jobs were actually still out there for CS majors in the industry. Coming from a CS major who has a stack of 'We're sorry, but...' letters sitting on his desk, I know that I have not had much luck in this area. Are there any places left offering good paid internships?"
define "next wave". CS requires that people pay for software, and that is not the direction the economy is headed. Sorry, boys. Unless you know something I don't, proprietary software has been opening more and more, except in Microsoft's case. Even they are anticipating losing market share to OSS.
This is one of the hazards of advanced technology. Rather than give people shorter work weeks/days and employing more people, companies are employing fewer people at the same wages to do the work that ten years go took half a dozen if not more people. In the office-bussiness-clerical fields, guess what that means? thats right, scarcely more than 15% of the jobs from 10 years ago are even necessary anymore. So when the economy takes a dive, so does the number of companies needing fewer people each.
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I'm pretty sure the HR Manager at the White House doesn't know what they are doing.
Not only have they cancelled the internship program, they've lowered the standards for the rest of the offices also.
Job Title: President
Required qualifications:
- 10 years or three terms experience running a large nation.
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