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IT Job Hiring Slumps
snydeq writes The IT job hiring bump earlier this year wasn't sustained in July and August, when numbers slumped considerably, InfoWorld reports. 'So much for the light at the end of the IT jobs tunnel. According to job data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as analyzed by Janco Associates, the IT professional job market has all but lost the head of steam it built up earlier this year. A mere 3,400 IT jobs were added in August, down from 4,600 added for July and way down from the 13,800 added in April of this year. Overall, IT hiring in 2014 got off to a weak start, then surged, only to stumble again.' Anybody out there finding the IT job market discouraging of late and care to share their experiences?
Well, it would make my job so much easier. It's kinda hard to explain to someone who has no idea what he's doing (i.e. someone who never saw ASM or C) why buffer overflows are BAD, why (and most of all how!) to avoid them.
Security would be a much easier job if "programmers" (I'll use the term very loosely here now) didn't stare blankly at you if you tried to tell them that garbage collection isn't just the term I use for the bus that takes them back home from work.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.