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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."
Nobody gives a shit!
That son of a bitch ate my brother, just because he was blue and flashing. Fuck him and that bitch of his with the bow on her head.
Inky
Sorry, Bush is going to wreck Social Security. It's history.
- Have a picture
And that ding-danged yellow headed twerp of theirs called "Jr". He wasn't potty-trained yet, and when he ate up that trail of white dots he left a trail of brown dots behind.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Nobody gives a shit!
I'm a stay-at-home mom. I used to be in software testing and documentation, until the tax cuts of the past few years made it possible for me to stay home with my son. (My husband and I also do some web design on the side, which pays for little extras)
If taxes were to go up (which I am guessing they would have under Kerry), I would have to go find a job since we do not depend on our little outside jobs to pay bills. Since I am very qualified in my field - and not to mention that I do an excellent job - I would probably get a job fairly quickly. That is a job that some poor schmuck who REALLY needs it wouldn't have available to him. The good of new job creation is minimized if people who currently are able to stay out of the workforce by choice are forced back in.
By the way, I consider us as 'ahead' because I am able to stay home with my son and raise him instead of outsourcing his care. I know that's not a popular idea among the liberals and feminists, but it's better for our family.
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
Gave them permanent MFM. Made them our 'trade equal'. All this bitching about 'Bush did this' or is 'gonna do that' makes me sick.
That rat bastard Clinton sold ALL our manufacturing jobs to the Chinese so he could get re-elected for four more years of intern ass-grabbing. Once he sold us all out, everything else started to follow. How the fuck do you think this country can afford 'high salaried jobs' when the base of our commerce all moved to China ?
Note to Cons:
Get over what? Republican sophistry? The reversal of the American Revolution?
We're going to rip your idiot chimp-like "President" to shreds for four years, and there isn't a god damned thing you can do about it.
You pinched off that turd, you sit in it.
Good luck lady- I'm a full fledged software engineer, have more programming languages than you have fingers and toes on my resume, as well as 6 completed successfull products, 2 of which are still in use- and it took me 2600 resumes and 26 months to find a job. And even then, the best I could do was upgrading Access Databases for state government at half my former income. No tax cut is going to help that.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
People with poor credit are irresponsible. We don't hire people who are irresponsible.
Like I would work for a bunch of Nazis that are unable to enforce equal trade (non-government set exchange rates) with other countries. Only Fascist work for the U.S. government now. Like a security clearance means anything more than approving of Fascism. Kiss my freedom loving white male ass Fascist Thugs.
Here's what I suck at- I suck at being a brown nosing little weasel who spends more time "networking" with reverse social engineering than programming. Bet you've never actually completed a project in your life either.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Have you ever given any thought into improving your communication skills?
Hard to do with Asperger's but I've been trying.
From this response, and others in this thread, you seem very full of anger and resentment against the world; like the world owes you something for being born.
It owes me one of two things, and I really wish it would choose one: Leaving me the hell alone, or giving me (and everybody else) an economic system that actually works. Take your pick.
It definitely shows in your writing styles.
Yep- It's meant to.
You are obviously very arrogant, opinionated, and need constant recognition for past work.
Yep- just like every other human being on the planet. Haven't you ever read Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
And I'm sure that Access DB job is well below your ego, but you needed money to support your DVD habits.
Don't have a DVD player at home- but I do have a son (17 months) that needs feeding. It's called procreating- but I don't imagine you would be interested.
Did you look outside your area?
Yep- all areas were equally depressed unless I wanted to learn Hindi or Mandarin.
Did you consider the possibility of relocating?
Yes, to Bangalore.
Did you consider another field completely?
Unlike you NeuroTypical brownnosers, I don't have that option.
Did you look into a manufacturing job?
Yep- none available now that they've all moved overseas.
How about sales?
Oh yeah, like a commission will feed my family.
Education?
Education budgets were slashed to pay for Bush's tax cut.
The world changes,
Why should we allow it to change?
adapt or perish.
There's a third option: kill.
For someone with dozens of languages known, I'm amazed that your personal website is so...1996. With all your free time in the past 26 months, I know someone of your experience and stature should have created a better site.
Actually- that site was abandoned a year and a half ago, when I got my current contract with State Government. And unlike you- I don't go for the latest trends. At least, when it was still active, that website would load just as well in Lynx as it would in IE- or whatever single browser you're targeting this week.
Be sure to train your children with weapons- it's the only way they'll stay alive.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Gee, then I can't for the life of me understand why Bush showed NOFRN papers to a Saudi Ambassador.
Or why some appointees in Doug Feith's office passed Classified docs to AIPAC, who then handed them off to Mossad.
Or why some person or persons unknown, likely Bush appointees to the Pentagon, passed highly sensitive communications secrets to Ahmed Chalabi, the INC branch of the Bush administration, who promptly turned them over to Iranian Intelligence agents.
Or why one of Dick Cheney's employees outed Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.
I mean, isn't George Bush like, super Patriotic, and don't these guys all have great Credit Ratings?
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.