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Techies Migrate in Search of Work
prostoalex writes "Tracing the story of one family where the father is employed in the IT field, the Washington Post discusses the current unemployment in the information technology field. For a good reason - for the first time in 30 years the IT unemployment rate exceeded the national average unemployment rate, implying that you have a better chance of getting a job if your field is something other than IT. The journalist does offer a disclaimer, saying that the term 'IT worker' is applied equally to a top-notch scientist in a research lab, to a dot-com startup billionaire, and to a local HTML guru. Relevant employment statistics also shows that layoffs in the IT field were up 60% in the third quarter of 2004."
...I'm planning to migrate to Canada. I hear access to the internets is faster there.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
He and his family are well known to the staff, and as a result they tend to leave extra power-pills under the bed to get them through the night.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...of an unladen techie?
Well, the first statement applies to Clinton perfectly, as does the second one to Kerry. But I'll be a monkey's uncle if I'd think that they looked alike.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Actually, about 32.47% of statistics are made up right on the spot.
Mr Packman had this to say:
"wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka wakka weooweooweoooweoo woop bleep! bleep!"
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
...computers just haven't caught on.
I hate clowns and it goes for couple of hundred pages too long.
Just remember kiddies, since he wasn't elected the first time, he can run again in 2008!
That's one of the ways they stole this election: They've been going door-to-door in heavily Democratic districts telling people that the US schedules its elections according to the Julian calendar. Now countless people are going to show up at the polls on November 15th only to find that they've been disenfranchised. It's despicable.
Ssh! Don't tell the Americans that. I'll be needing one of those jobs in a few years!
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Whoops, silly middle mouse button...
Drives me nuts... but some people seem to love the ability to lump everything together like that.
I got interviewed by a newspaper reporter for one of these "man on the street" stories. When she asked "What do you do?" I said "I'm a computer programmer." Upon hearing that, her face lit up, and she said "Ah, IT!"
Sure enough, the caption under my picture in the paper said "<name>, IT worker".
I suppose if I hunted her down and killed her, the resulting story would be "Reporter Murdered by Enraged IT Worker"...
We live, as we dream -- alone....
I can't even get a gmail account, how'm I gonna get a security clearance...?
It contradicts my belief that I got where I am through skill and hard work. If you are not successful, it must be because you lack skill or do not work hard. If people who have skill and work hard can still fail, then perhaps I was just lucky, or priveleged in ways that others were not. Perhaps my belief that the system rewards eveyone who works hard is incorrect. That conflicts with my sense of fairness and justice, creating uncomfortable cognitive dissonance, so shut up already! I have decided that everyone who does not succeed deserves to fail, the system works, and everything is fair and just. Quit whining, you failures! Lalalalala, I can't hear you...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Maybe you could borrow some money of some unregistered thug on the street, say against 25% a year (or break your bones). Then you could pay of your debts with the money and apply for a security clearance. With the money you earn you can repay your dept to the thug. If you get in a tight spot, you can always sell some security related information.
Uh oh, there goes my clearance.