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Need a Job? Move to India
WhoDaresWins writes "As U.S. jobs move abroad, more Americans are willing to work overseas like in India as per a CNN.com story. The story talks about many Americans and also Indians who are American citizens moving to India for work. This story should be an eye opener to people who feel Americans cannot work in India. With a booming economy there is a need for skilled professionals with years of experience in a western enconomy and industry. Best of all, job listings are available online." Thomas Friedman has a piece called The secret to India's success.
Is this one of those sacred monsters or is he edible. Please pass the nan.
Finally my dream of writing free software is coming true. Well, it's not entirely free, but for $300 a month it's pretty close, don't you think?
Next year on Slashdot - thinking of moving to Republic of Kongo? The software jobs paying $50 a month are all there, and you get free bowl of soup on the weekends and they don't beat you up on even days.
We need to beat them to the Mars!
...and still have to pay those outrageous prices at the Quickimart! Thank you. Come again!
"What the hell is an aluminum falcon?"
I'd arrive in Bombay only to discover they've started outsourcing. To some real hellhole. Like Antarctica. Or Detroit.
2015: Simpsons: India Edition introduces Abe, the stereotypical American expatriate who works at the Kwik-E-Mart.
We don't edukate our kids.
I couldn't agree more!
... move to slashdot.
Way to go michael, master of idiocy!
The results I am seeing so far indicate that while they can do the work, as instructed, they are incapable of being creative, or adaptive, when confronted.
Yes, but they combine to form Devastator, the most powerful Ind.. er.. Decept.. oh, wait, wrong train of thought.
Move to a country bordering on 3rd world poverty from the wealthiest nation on the Earth for an IT job.
Personally, I plan on moving to Uganda for the healthcare and China for absolute freedom of speech.
I said it in jest over a year ago: to stay in IT, the American should become an Indian citizen in order to be qualified to work in IT in America again.
This is kind of a new paradigm for labor, using an old paradigm for other assets. If you run a corporation in America, you register it in Delaware. If you run a cargo ship, you register it in Liberia. Now, it seems that to work in IT, you have to register your body in India.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
now they'll steal our jokes like:
"Someone set us up the Bombay"
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Well, I'm a African Chinese Jewish Indian American, and I'm good at math, have an accounting degree, love fried chicken, and am incapable of creativity or original thought! So there!
Didn't you hear?
Well, technically Philadelphia and Illinois were annexed by Canada. Canada, India, the UK, and Australia then reconstituted the British Empire. They're new currency is the RupeePoundDollar.
*rimshot*
*chuckle* Well here in Greece, I am considered well off with my 16k Euros/Yr (Gross)...
And where else can a taxi driver and his two passengers stop and squat for a quick dump on the side of the road while they discuss perl programming. America really should embrace such cultural diversity.
Telecommuting! What about socialization?
I can guarantee you that you would NEVER have to flip hamburgers in India.
beef jerky
I can assure you that there are quite a few of them that will not be purchasing your beef jerky.
Remember the late 80's when we all figured the Japanese would own most of the West Coast too?
And an elephant! Don't forget the elephant!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
And if you sell the wife and kids you could have a happy retirement.
I would like a traveling web programming position in the Tuscany region. Preferably having an office with a Mediterranean view from a one of the villas of Cinque Terre. I'm not so sure about India...so is this too much to ask?
whoah you have still a long way to being an "American." I don't know about Nepal, but if you dont like something here, you bitch, whine, complain, invade another country, and demand lower taxes.
Get with the program!
In India, they have "arranged marriages"!
If that doesn't motivate you, I don't know what will...
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Monstrous traffic, unbelievable overcrowding, incredible numbers of beggars, and Mumbai smelled like burning garbage... everywhere
wait a minute are you talking about New York city?
Oh come on, it's easy.
I keep getting offer for getting a Visa just about every day. My parent's dog even got one recently.
No matter how your interpretation of 'well off' is, you are definately not well off with 16kEur/Yr in Germany.
*/me thinks****
Damn! And you have all the sun and the coastlines and stuff as well! Do you have a job to offer?
But then again you language is all greek to me. *sigh*
nevermind,
-silence
Dyslectics of the world, untie!
Actually, they probably are, but all that snow hides it.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Yeah, free trade is like religion.
... give offerings of fruit, oil or wine to your small Alan Greenspan statue for good fortune and prosperity.
You take it on faith
If you get screwed doing what you were told, blame yourself or consider it a test.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.