More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002

stoolpigeon writes: "A study, released today by the AeA, shows that the U.S. high-tech industry lost 540,000 jobs in 2002, dropping from 6.5 million to 6.0 million. However, a preliminary look at data for 2003 shows that the decline in high-tech employment has slowed considerably this year."

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Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard.

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There are many good programmers that don't understand business and want to be handed clean coding tasks. These are the people that are whining incessantly because their requirements documents aren't right.

My god....someone else who gets it. When I was a coder (internal apps for a fund accounting firm), I sat down with the people who did the job I was to assist/automate with code and LEARNED TO DO THEIR JOB. By writing my own requirements doc, I could craft a better end product.

Then I move up to being the dev manager at another place. And I hear nothing but whining from coders who don't have a detailed enough requirement doc, or that I wanted something else even though what they did techincally allowed them to check off every box on their completion crieria. Cittone/DeVry/NameAnotherCrappy"School" never tought them a damn thing about business. I had coders who could run circles around me in raw code. But they had no concept of the practical application of their skills. They will always be in jeopardy of losing their jobs. And they will always be the ones who whine the loudest.