Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S.

alphapartic1e writes "Yahoo! News writes "The U.S. software industry lost 16 percent of its jobs from March 2001 to March 2004, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute found. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that information technology industries laid off more than 7,000 American workers in the first quarter of 2005. Gartner researchers say most people affiliated with corporate information technology departments will assume "business-facing" roles, focused not so much on gadgets and algorithms but corporate strategy, personnel and financial analysis. "If you're only interested in deep coding and you want to remain in your cubicle all day, there are a shrinking number of jobs for you," said Diane Morello, Gartner vice president of research.""

Comments

Re:The jobs are going overseas

[newdamage]

The sad thing is, as a 12" G4 iBook owner, I have to agree. I've seen some of the screens that my friends have on their new'ish (less than a year old) Dell laptops, and their screens seem to be brighter and sharper than mine.

I'd actually consider a non-Mac laptop, but my last experience with getting everything working properly with Linux on a PC laptop was not encouraging.

Re:briliant

[Smallest]

the Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis and the rest of the various SE Asians will make the products, of course.

but Big Brained Americans will remain on top because their brains are so much bigger and better than those of anyone else in the world. nobody else could possibly come up with the same wonderful products that an American Brain can. no way. not ever. nope

Re:Imm. Req!!! Sr. Software Engineer - INDIA

[oliverthered]

Maybe funny, but there's a real lack of European langauge speekers in India.

If you want to make a bit of cash, and speak at least English and one other European language go get a top level management job in India.

Re:The jobs are going overseas

[5plicer]

The key is taking the time to walk through the advanced calibration setup under System Preferences > Displays > Color. When I first got my iBook, it has a yellowish tint to the screen. After some careful calibration, it now looks almost as good a PowerBook's screen (a little less bright though).

Now to say something about the job market... just to stay on topic ;)

I just landed a PERL programming job on Friday! However, I'm Canadian, so I guess that doesn't really say anything about the state of job availability in the US IT industry...