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A Positive Outlook on the Software Industry
joechang writes "According to this article in Business 2.0, our IT sector jobs are not as glum as we make them out to be. Despite the downturn in the economy, the article maintains that our jobs are as stable as ever, and that pay increases are actually at reasonable levels. In addition, software development is still one of the largest growing industries, and that Billings, MT is a high growth area. Of course, I haven't heard of any of my co-workers taking a job in Billings..."
Outlook can be positive?
Show me a stable job, and I'll show you a...umm......resume.
~ "When I'm of that age I'm just going to live up a tree."
Hey.. This story should've been printed on April 1st.. Too early.
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Nobody here complains...especially in their bmw/benz/porches...
:P
Anon
Billings, MT is a high growth area. Of course, I haven't heard of any of my co-workers taking a job in Billings..."
I have several co-workers who took a job in Billings. They didn't even have a choice: they were transferred from Sales and Collections.
This is an early article from their April Fool's edition that slipped out too early. Sorry for any problems it may have caused. Billings, MT....come on, who's going to believe that?
IT is just as bad off as you thought. Go back to your normal lives....
Oh crap busted copy paste. here's the real link
http://www.rit.edu/~slr2777/resumes/
Like anyone is going to hire a guy who can't even get a link straight. My Karma is excellent however, and that shows a lot.
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
the two Billings programmers doubled to four.
(not meant to be a troll)
Demand for jobs in the rubble-clearing sector have jumped over 400% in the past 48 hours. Unemployed IT workers in Baghdad rejoice.
Bah, I'll show you 40 people that can't. They're our in-house development staff.
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. -CP
Not so loud. We wouldn't want any would-be CSer's rethinking those liberal arts degrees. Too many engineering degrees were spawned by the irrational exuberance of the late 90's tech boom as it is. Remember, its DOOM and GLOOM.
On the same subject, for the first time this winter, it warmed up over freezing the other week! And boy, those flies came from nowhere, there were three in the kitchen! Where were they, and how did they survive?
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Lately the only place you're going to find good money is drug sales and murder for hire. If you're looking to invest, I'd suggest canned beans and shotgun shells (Obviously get a shotgun too.)
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
..but it's nice to finally see a positive article about Outlook here.
And boy is it exciting! Woo, ha! In fact, I just got fourteen job offers last week, and I'm a 22 year old recent grad with a crappy GPA.
Anything goes, here in billings. Local culture is primo. I've lived in LA, NYC, but I got sick of all the ugly girls. Come here to Billings, where it's nothing but 100% beautiful people, all the time.
I work in an all Linux shop, writing 3D game engines and debating Libertarian politics. It's great!
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Thats the reason bugs were invented for... There will always be someone needed to debug the error you programmed...
Business magazines are written for people that buy into the business lifestyle and don't see it as a necessary evil. For those people, who latch onto the cocks of their managers in a lamprey-esque way, the future in business is always bright. For those of us with minds, the future usually sucks. Such is the way of america.
Let me get this straight. Thier magazine's quantative analysis (they published thier data and method of analysis) is wrong because the people who read it suck thier bosses dick, and your lack of prospects is caused by your analytical skills?
I'm overwelmed to see my fellow Americans using thier critical thinking skills to spread insightful and informed opinions! Yay!
"Communism is like having one [local] phone company " - Lenny Bruce
only %20 of..
Am I the only geek who saw this typo and said "only [space] of them know UNIX? (%20 is space, URL encoded, ASCII 0x20)
I had to move to another state and my pay went from $50,000 a year to $17,000 a year.
Ramen consumption has gone up. Way up.
2003 Employment Outlook What are you Really Worth?
In a breaking news flash, buzzword2.0 announces that the 2003 Employment Outlook still sucks. To confirm this claim, buzzword2.0 decided to interview all 127,000 people in the San Jose area unemployment line. To our surprise, 97.876 people said that after they got pinked slipped from their web programmer positions, life has truely sucked.
'I tried to get a job at BurgerBling,' states Joe Smith, 'but they said I was under qualified. Something about lack of any real skill. Now I'm here at the unemployment line.'
Jane Jones says, 'The biggest regret I had in college was to switch my major from deep sea basket english to CS (computers and stuff). I could be doing so much more for the world. But at least I'm making more here than at my previous job.'
buzzword2.0 decided to also interview managers regarding Outlook 2003. Most said that they weren't going to implement Outlook 2003 because they were happy with Outlook 98.
buzzword2.0 didn't stop here. We decided to interview upper management. Warren Whitecollar, senior VP of computers and stuff at International Layoff Machine stated, '[I] really don't know why I laid off 30% of my work force... I was golfing with my friend from Federated Slavery at the Kentucky Kountry Klub, and he told me he laid off 25% of his employees. So I just had to lay off more than him, and replace our help desk team with Indonesian Pigmy Chimps. It worked out great!'
Finally, buzzword2.0 interviewed the heart of Outlook 2003 Gloom... Wall Street. Here is the transcript of the interview we had with investment guru Rober Poorman:
B20: What do you think of the Outlook for 2003/2004?
RP: Sucks...
B20: Well, is it going to get better anytime soon?
RP: It's not really supposed to. We're still profiting off of 9/11 tragedy and the dot com boom we invented.
B20: What's that supposed to mean?
RP: It's kind of hard to find new investors, pardon me, I mean suckers to buy the new stocks we just printed up right now. Plus it'll take us at least a year to architect another 'boom', market it, hype it and sell it. This will give us enough time to print out a few million more shares. Rinse, lather, ripoff.
B20: That's horrible...
RP: I know. You want to buy some stock? Because if you're not, I'm late for a power lunch I'm hosting with some single mother's life savings.
b20: No! Well that concludes this article. Next week we'll publish Outlook 2003 2.0.
That's Not True (TM)! Look! We have proof that guys who helped develop key infrastructural components of the Internet can find work!
Fellowship 9/11
You know the IT sector is screwed when a young guy like me thinks that maybe music is the more profitable career path.