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Tech Employment Drops Sharply In 2004

Posted by timothy on from the statistics-are-what-they-are dept.

Cryofan writes "According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004. According to IT World, the number of employed Software Engineers fell by 15% from April to July of 2004 (from 856,000 to 725,000)."

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  1. Re: Some of this is probably reinvention by mcpkaaos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's fantastic. However, next time just sum up what you have to say with "I'm a corporate whore".

    Thanks,

    Everyone

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  2. Well, duh by HangingChad · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Outsource enough jobs to India and what other numbers would you expect? A lot of IT people...with a few notable exceptions...are generally pretty bright. Some had different careers before IT. Some of them went back to being male models and gigillos like they were before and many in college changed majors. Still more saw the hand writing on the wall and decided to set up a non-IT sideline career because you couldn't count on being able to make a living in the field if you lost your job.

    It's like we never learn in this country. Dependence on foreign oil isn't bad enough, now we're dependent on foreign manufacturing...actually shipping entire factories including specialized equipment overseas. Now we're exporting mind share. Economists be blowed, I think this is a really dangerous trend. It's not being xenophobic to suggest that too much reliance on other countries, for anything, is a really bad idea.

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  3. Re:It's Open Source's Fault by samantha · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are a raving loon. The jobs were lost to out-sourcing and to company downsizing in a bad economy.

  4. Wow! by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I love how a link to some random website proves how 'wrong' the common historical understanding. While FDR's programs may not have lifted americans out of the depression, what they did do was allow americans to like, not starve to death.

    I don't see how you can view the repulican party as good for "individual freedom" in any sense of the word. They want to shove religiosity down our throats in order to apease their base. How does the embryonic stem cell restrictions support individual liberty? how does the war on drugs support invididual liberty? and so on.

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  5. Oh goodness. by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He lied to you.

    He used intelligence for his political (and perhaps economical) gain.

    He has awarded juicy contracts to companies (without looking for the best deal) of his chums and associates (that latter on overcharge your goverment).

    He has done precious little against the medieval country from which financiers and ground soldiers of the 9-11 attack came (US-Saudi relations are in reasonbaly good health).

    He has done nothing to cut your addiction from foreign oil).

    He put a chum of Unocal, yet another US company, as president of AFghanistan (surprise: Unocal wins contracts for gas pipeline trhough AFghanistan).

    And still you consider him a credible alternative?

    What does this individual need to do for you to finally see the light? Appear in a party picture with Osama bin Laden?

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