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The Future of IT in America?
tomocoo asks: "As a young person considering various choices for the future career I'd like to pursue, IT and computer science continually reappear near the top of the list of fields I'm interested in. In fact, one of my only hesitations is the suspected ease by which programming and other related tasks can be sent to other countries for pennies on the dollar. How much of a threat do the readers of Slashdot feel outsourcing is to the American programmer? Should I and other young people be pursuing something more specialized or have I simply been watching too much CNN?"
Perhaps learning to speak Hindi could be of some use?
Capitalism is not on your side here. Big companies want to move jobs overseas, and for jobs here, they want to import cheaper foreignors to take them. The latter phenomenon is a big part of the current bickering over immigration, which is not entirely about Mexicans really but also about Indians who are taking middle-class jobs.
It is quickly becoming a commodity market for hardware and software.
Service people are being replaced by 'throwaway' computers that are not worth getting fixed. So don't aspire to be a 'hardware guy
Software is getting to the point that the average person can 'get by' and not need to call a tech to help out. When the PC flakes out due to viruses or stupidity, you just restore from the original disks..There goes a lot of admin jobs.
Canned software is also at the point that most people can 'get by', so unless you work for one of the giants, no need for programmers.
Networks, for small offices they are plug -n - play.
New product development? Have you seen a really innovative product in 10 years? Nope.
While i realize that it wont dry up 100% and there will be a small ultra high level, IT market, don't expect it to be like it has been in the past Not a good place to try to start a career.
Sure, mod me troll, but ive been in the business 30+ years, and if you dont see the direction its heading you are either a kid, or blind. ( or stupid )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
The future of iiee-teee in America
woe ohh
Right on - when eliminating these politicians in other countries, do you think we should use the achingly expensive socialist big government army, or instead outsource to guerillas bought with a few cheap crates of guns? As Iraq has shown, the conventional army is expensive, taking tax dollars away from hard working citizens. It's mostly deficit, so I can still have my war and not pay for it, but Iraq is starting to feel like a scam - I mean if it had brought down the price of oil it would have been worth it. Oil that nourishes the glorious free market like smooth massage oil nourished the milky warm skin of Ayn Rand.
Nevertheless, it sounds like a pretty good reason to me, and invading other countries is something too important to worry about reasons for. We must move against these enemies of freedom. Enemies of the freedom to make as much fucking money as we can, God bless America!