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."

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My mistake

[AtariAmarok]

My mistake. At first, I thought it said Trekkies, and had something to do with the collapsing Star Trek franchise.

MPU (mod parent up)

[Jonboy X]

Amen, brotha! A DBA is not a computer programmer. An HTML jockey is not a computer programmer. As a bona-fide Software Engineer (note the capitalization), I can't tell you how much I resent being lumped in with the rest of you losers.

It's left as an exercise for the reader to determine how much of this post, if any, is sarcasm, and how much is my earnest feelings.