Plus in Alaska you don't have 27 millions assholes like you do in Texas.
Oh look another texan with a 1" penis driving a Ford F550 pickup jacked sky high and rilling coal.
?? Have you been to Alaska? It is loaded with gun loving conservatives who own trucks and Suburu's (because they are all wheel drive). Not bashing the state but it is as red as Alabama due to it's military presence and those who hate society and go to get a more minimalist approach.
Yes for non_americans reading this they are properly addressed and not called Indians like the rest of the lower 48. Alaskan English at it's finest:-)
Since we are stealing their land we compensated them for it. That money will greatly help them out where jobs are scarce in the arctic villages and prices and supplies high in cost. During a good year the PFD can be as high as $3,000 a person. If you are a family of 4 in a village on the arctic coast up north that money will buy fuel for the winter and a new snowmobile for the kids to get to school.... no folks I am not exaggerating that last one:-)
Alaska is the closet thing to paradise for those who want to move to a crowded place like Colorado, Montana, Oregon, etc.
It has lake front property for cheaper than these areas due to excess supply. If you love the city and did not grow up as a kid in the woods or near lakes or enjoy outdoor recreation activities then it may suck for you.'
This is from a former Alaska resident. It wasn't hard... my exwife cried and started to loose her mind as she became depressed and hated the outdoors and refused to leave and play wow on her computer all day. I went outside. Not all of Alaska has a cold climate by the way. It depends on your location to the ocean as Juneau has a mild oceanic climate if you can handle the moss and constant rain.
Where I was it was about as cold as Michigan or Minnesota in the winter and cool Seattle during the summer. Fairbanks and others are a different story as -40 does suck
My coworker swears by his. It is a pita to grab a phone out of your pocket to take a call. He can be busy working on a computer or driving and still take calls and answer emails. A good watch is a cell phone replacement
I never heard of deubging before and can't seem to find a Wikipedia article on it?
However, what is stop malware from using this to avoid detection at the cpu level where there is no footprint. It could be used to disable AV endpoint software as well.
These resumes from India all have 10 years of programming experience in html 5 and everyone of them have a degree in mathematics or cs! It is time Americans also had such backgrounds or we can't find enough qualified workers to do differential equations for Adobe Dreamweaver
I think the root of many problems is people not having any control over what they do.
Sure you do! If you do not like your job QUIT. Go get some training, go back to school, ask for a new assignment at work, go update your resume, etc. You have options. The question is why and what for? Where to run to?
If yo don't... then that is on you. Go work at your job for 2 years and build references. THen move on if you have gaps.
People are scared of changed too much. My take on this is what do you fear more? Being stuck with a dead end job you hate for the rest of your days? Or fear taking a risk with something new? To me the former is scary than the later. If you decide not to take that jump then you need an attitude adjustment and a kick in the butt and appreciate the job you have. After all you made that choice so make it the right one etc
I did during the days of the Great Recession a few years ago. Brings a whole new perspective on what exactly is sucky:-)
On a more philosophical level for those reading this who hate their IT jobs then what would you all rather be doing? That is where I am at. I say not dealing with annoying users all day and more admin work but I could see that getting old and repetitive real fast.
Would being HR be more fun? How about boring spreadsheets and statistical analysis all day in accounting/finance?
I can't think of anything that doesn't suck sadly. I guess I come to the realization that they call it work for a reason and all jobs suck but it beats the alternative of no job at all right? I keep saying I will start a business but that is a pipe dream. No job is really a hobby. Hey, IT work pays ok and it beats most other work out there as my examples above.
So you have no problem telling 1 out of 3 users to fword to your customers?? That is what it is as Grandma will go to a competitor.
Remember the customer is hiring you for maximum reach of customer base. Web developmemt is different as we can't tell a cuatomer which browser to run like yours. If it aint working right on their desktop then your product is unaccwptable. Now yes you sell expensive equipment then that is different. HTML 5 is next decade technology
You know 2012 was an exciting year for web developers.
We just started learning 1998 CSS 2.1 and HTML 4.01. Why??? IE 6 prevented us from not being behind 10 years. It killed standards and we had to wait until it hit 1% and corporations who pay for the web developers who ran IE 6 saw a scrambled mess and said HEY WHO THEY HELL DID WE HIRE etc not realizing it was their poor 10 year old browser.
My point?
Grandma on XP uses IE 8 her internets won't work unless you do flash. THat client who pays you has IE 8 from 2009 because Oracle won't update their peoplesoft app without millions of dollars.
So we have to wait until CHina too who still uses XP with updates disabled so they are all on IE 6 to upgrade too by 2020.
In 2020 we can start to learn 2010 technology while the rest of us update every 6 weeks. Sigh and face palm. Flash will be here for a very very very long time short of making a law requiring TO STOP USING ANCIENT IE
Comcast tried $100 a month with no TV for just Internet??! Talk about highway robbery. My dsl really sucks and feels like it's 2005 rather than 2015 with 7 megs a second. My phone losses calling and email abilities if I run Windows update. Sigh
But at least I have no caps and a $40 a month and not $100 price
That was a sexy geek OS on top of Unix back in the day before it morphed into present day MacOSX when Steve Jobs brought it along to Apple.
It had right mouse button clicking and the menus and dockable icons and launchers (though were not on the buttom) but the concept was part of Windows 95 to its core with the start menu emulating much of it.
AfterStep which was Robs founder of slashdot favorite back in the day as well as WindowMaker were WM's which tried to clone part of the functionality into Linux at the turn of the century. WindowMaker was the most popular before Kde and then Gnome started to mature to what we have today.
Really? You are comparing Gnome 3/kde 4.x to a modern working start menu?
I'm not comparing Gnome3 to anything; Gnome3 sucks. KDE has a proper "modern" start menu, it's the way the Windows start menu should have been all along. The "menu" (which isn't a menu at all) in Metro is bullshit.
Is it crap because it is inferior?
Yes. It's absolute garbage. It's ugly, it's confusing, it even has two separate control panels for some stupid reason (there's a metro control panel, but it doesn't have much stuff in it, so you have to go find the hidden Win7-style control panel to actually change things). There is nothing good about it. It's obviously designed for tablets, but I'm not using a tablet. And if I were, it'd still be ugly as hell. WTF is with the ugly graphics and colors? It's like the Pontiac Aztek of UIs.
These applets you hate you do not have to use.
You still have to use the Metro interface any time you click on "start", unless you install some 3rd-party workaround software.
Actually that is not metro. The old control panel is scheduled to go away but the marketing department just couldn't wait back to school sadly so it is was only half done.
The hamburger menus of the new is what kids and millennial prefer to use as it is what their phones and websites have been using since they were born. What we think is natural an old mac style menu's seem ugly and counter intuitive to them as a result. It is a win32 app.
Yes colors for title bars they are reading back as it was rushed ala Vista style in October with update 1. Just drag off the tiles you want and the menu is back.
What 8 sucked at was closed door syndrome. Things fly out at you. One app comes and everything is invisible. Stuff randomly opens and closes when you use a touchpad is another. All of them fixed.
I am waiting and you may not like but it surely is not unusable nor designed for tablets. It functions just like 7. You hit the WIndows key and type what you want. Or use a mouse if you like the old XP way of all programs which many have not learned a way. Anyway each to their own. I could use 10 if someone put a gun to my head. On 8 I needed several paid programs to undo the damage in comparison.
I could say the same with factories 100 years ago and had statistics prove it! But a middle class formed in the US and Europe in the 19th century at the same time.
I could go back 30 years ago and say the same with computers and humans won't know math anymore. True computers short term eliminated some book keepers. Long time we had silicon valley and a whole new profession or professions invented.
Competition will lower prices and yes it will be awhile before India, China, Africa, and perhaps some day Russia after Putin is gone. Yes more companies from these countries will come in. But we have a century or two of more growth as many wasted human potential doing little or no value work right now will be working which will spread the wealth etc.
What people who are not in IT realize is that we also answer to finance, HR, and legal.
Just the other day HR gave us written warnings and started documenting what I said. WTF. Why? The client came in and demanded all applicants applying MUST HAVE ACCESS TO PERSONAL EMAIL on our network from anyone off the street?!
For the background we are a call center company who has HIPAA and PCI compliance that we use the same switches, routers, and servers. Oh yeah, gee no risk at all of a virus or keylogger coming on spreading and violating the contracts of all the other clients.
HR and management snuck in some Samsung tablets and put in our secret wifi password to get around corporate IT and then were infuriated when we threatened to report them. After all we were so lazy and power hungry and do nothing all day but are an expense etc.
It got bad and I tried to get my boss to have the client communicate with the CIO and executive VP's. If they raise a fit they will do so with other VP's who will turn them are you out of mind?! No.
IT may look out of place but our function is to answer to legal and enforce our contracts with our other customers. Sorry HR who went around and promised without consulting we can just lift all security and have anyone do what they please. It is a crappy job sometimes but it is not that we hate change. If I disabled this my boss and myself would have been fired and the company fined.
Really? You are comparing Gnome 3/kde 4.x to a modern working start menu?
Is it crap because it is inferior? Or are you just not used to it due to muscle memory? I do not see Metro. I just see icons which dynamically change with info. Infact it is not metro enough on my surface tablet and too optimized for the desktop in my opinion if you ever owned one. But that is why 10 now has tablet mode.
But really the tile is just an icon with updated info. Outlook and use this too. These applets you hate you do not have to use.
Actually by next summer thanks to VS 2015 you will see ported IOS and Android apps as they can use up to 80% of the same code to be compatible with the universal API doing the other 20%. You can Dalvek and objective-C and clang to write apps.
But I am not a fanboy as I have an earlier version of Windows right now due to needing the same version of Hyper-V as 2012 R2 which is 8.1 for the time being. It works just fine.
Last I looked plumbers still make more than doctors.
I keep hearing this, but all the data I can find does plumbers making on average ~$60k and general practitioners ~$140k.
I needed some work done for a kitchen. They standard rate was between $100hr - $150 an hour.
Yes plumbers make 6 figures. Seeing a doctor costs about the same too and they have a full staff to pay like a receptionist, nurse, transcribers, liability insurance, etc. In the end the doctor who charges $150,000 is also a top income earning and pays %50 tax. He or she probably takes home around $65,000 a year after all the costs are incurred. True some plumbers get paid $60,000 too! There boss gets the other $60,000 for their work. Costs are much lower.
If you are an indepent plumber you can keep most of that money are skim off the top %50 of the junior ones working for you!
The reason their salary is high is kept up with inflation and automation. Everyone else but the CEO has went down.
Unionize and you can say India real fast! Most companies that are not union will simply close shop. It is not only Walmart who eliminates the deli position at all stores because of 1 unionized location.
With a global marketshare we need to compete. Putting up more barriers will just have them ignore the US entirely. Infact Coke mentioned they hardly make any money in America anymore. If they left the US they will only be down 12% profits or something silly.
If they had to unionize Coke will simply survive just fine being based in India or China and selling everywhere outside the US etc.
Where westerners can compete is value for dollar, speciality, and being onsite and local for meetings and to ensure something is done right. Yes you can find experienced Chinese manufacturers and Indians but you lose in the supply chain as Just In Time inventory actually increases costs which the accountants do not see. Apple is the only company even having an ok JIT inventory system. Everyone else will happily lose more on unsold inventory to save a few pennies in labor costs and lawsuits from greedy employees.
Tell that to my fellow grads who got degrees in accounting. No one could find a job:-(
Excel and VBA took over book keeper jobs. You can't get a CPA without experience and a masters degree and you can't get experience without being a book keeper. A catch 22.
Really most large companies use Quicken and Excel to do their jobs and people in India to do a double check with the numbers. Those with experience and 22 credits in finance can take the CPA... oh and to get anyway with real experience to pass HR you need to do 2 year internships at the top 3 accounting firms for 70 hours a week to prove yourself.
It seems more jobs pay less, work more, and have steeper requirements as time goes on. Automation is putting the squeeze in this area for everyone and yes even IT. Object oriented programming and better tools cost programmers more jobs too. IT jobs typically have more hours today than 10 years ago because so many have been replaced and are higher to work 14 hours if you include a pizza.
The incentive is made by the CEO and CIO of the company to cut costs. Not you. Similar analogy? I downgraded to a crappy DSl connection:-( Why? Comcast wanted $100 a month with no TV just for internet??! Fuck that. I went to DSL to save money. I know it is not as good but my priorities is I will tolerate it as I have bills to pay.
A CIO knows they get inferior work by outsourcing and using programs to replace people. However, the savings make the pain worth it. Same principle.
Plumbers have to buy truck and expensive tools, and they don't get paid for driving to your house so that's built into their hourly rate. Doctors only need to buy stethoscope (and those will soon cost $0.30 to 3d print) which lasts his whole career, plus he gets kickbacks from Big Pharma for pushing their drugs. So in the end plumber is worse off than doctor.
Doctors have to buy some very expensive database HIPPA compliant software, transcribers, nurses, receptionists, and ultra expensive medical equipment if they have a speciality. The plumber wins as IT people need expensive certs, and also vans/trucks too. IT has it the best as the cost of getting a MCSE or Cisco is just several thousand dollars and maybe up to $10k if you want some instructor led courses at the most.
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Plus in Alaska you don't have 27 millions assholes like you do in Texas.
Oh look another texan with a 1" penis driving a Ford F550 pickup jacked sky high and rilling coal.
?? Have you been to Alaska? It is loaded with gun loving conservatives who own trucks and Suburu's (because they are all wheel drive). Not bashing the state but it is as red as Alabama due to it's military presence and those who hate society and go to get a more minimalist approach.
Yes for non_americans reading this they are properly addressed and not called Indians like the rest of the lower 48. Alaskan English at it's finest :-)
Since we are stealing their land we compensated them for it. That money will greatly help them out where jobs are scarce in the arctic villages and prices and supplies high in cost. During a good year the PFD can be as high as $3,000 a person. If you are a family of 4 in a village on the arctic coast up north that money will buy fuel for the winter and a new snowmobile for the kids to get to school .... no folks I am not exaggerating that last one :-)
Alaska is the closet thing to paradise for those who want to move to a crowded place like Colorado, Montana, Oregon, etc.
It has lake front property for cheaper than these areas due to excess supply. If you love the city and did not grow up as a kid in the woods or near lakes or enjoy outdoor recreation activities then it may suck for you.'
This is from a former Alaska resident. It wasn't hard ... my exwife cried and started to loose her mind as she became depressed and hated the outdoors and refused to leave and play wow on her computer all day. I went outside. Not all of Alaska has a cold climate by the way. It depends on your location to the ocean as Juneau has a mild oceanic climate if you can handle the moss and constant rain.
Where I was it was about as cold as Michigan or Minnesota in the winter and cool Seattle during the summer. Fairbanks and others are a different story as -40 does suck
What a time waster. I know I am not alone either
My coworker swears by his. It is a pita to grab a phone out of your pocket to take a call. He can be busy working on a computer or driving and still take calls and answer emails. A good watch is a cell phone replacement
I never heard of deubging before and can't seem to find a Wikipedia article on it?
However, what is stop malware from using this to avoid detection at the cpu level where there is no footprint. It could be used to disable AV endpoint software as well.
These resumes from India all have 10 years of programming experience in html 5 and everyone of them have a degree in mathematics or cs! It is time Americans also had such backgrounds or we can't find enough qualified workers to do differential equations for Adobe Dreamweaver
I think the root of many problems is people not having any control over what they do.
Sure you do! If you do not like your job QUIT. Go get some training, go back to school, ask for a new assignment at work, go update your resume, etc. You have options. The question is why and what for? Where to run to?
If yo don't ... then that is on you. Go work at your job for 2 years and build references. THen move on if you have gaps.
People are scared of changed too much. My take on this is what do you fear more? Being stuck with a dead end job you hate for the rest of your days? Or fear taking a risk with something new? To me the former is scary than the later. If you decide not to take that jump then you need an attitude adjustment and a kick in the butt and appreciate the job you have. After all you made that choice so make it the right one etc
Moto 360 can't take calls and doesn't have a big screen like the Saumsung watch
I did during the days of the Great Recession a few years ago. Brings a whole new perspective on what exactly is sucky :-)
On a more philosophical level for those reading this who hate their IT jobs then what would you all rather be doing? That is where I am at. I say not dealing with annoying users all day and more admin work but I could see that getting old and repetitive real fast.
Would being HR be more fun? How about boring spreadsheets and statistical analysis all day in accounting/finance?
I can't think of anything that doesn't suck sadly. I guess I come to the realization that they call it work for a reason and all jobs suck but it beats the alternative of no job at all right? I keep saying I will start a business but that is a pipe dream. No job is really a hobby. Hey, IT work pays ok and it beats most other work out there as my examples above.
So you have no problem telling 1 out of 3 users to fword to your customers?? That is what it is as Grandma will go to a competitor.
Remember the customer is hiring you for maximum reach of customer base. Web developmemt is different as we can't tell a cuatomer which browser to run like yours. If it aint working right on their desktop then your product is unaccwptable. Now yes you sell expensive equipment then that is different. HTML 5 is next decade technology
You know 2012 was an exciting year for web developers.
We just started learning 1998 CSS 2.1 and HTML 4.01. Why??? IE 6 prevented us from not being behind 10 years. It killed standards and we had to wait until it hit 1% and corporations who pay for the web developers who ran IE 6 saw a scrambled mess and said HEY WHO THEY HELL DID WE HIRE etc not realizing it was their poor 10 year old browser.
My point?
Grandma on XP uses IE 8 her internets won't work unless you do flash. THat client who pays you has IE 8 from 2009 because Oracle won't update their peoplesoft app without millions of dollars.
So we have to wait until CHina too who still uses XP with updates disabled so they are all on IE 6 to upgrade too by 2020.
In 2020 we can start to learn 2010 technology while the rest of us update every 6 weeks. Sigh and face palm. Flash will be here for a very very very long time short of making a law requiring TO STOP USING ANCIENT IE
Yeah
Comcast tried $100 a month with no TV for just Internet??! Talk about highway robbery. My dsl really sucks and feels like it's 2005 rather than 2015 with 7 megs a second. My phone losses calling and email abilities if I run Windows update. Sigh
But at least I have no caps and a $40 a month and not $100 price
IE was on the Windows 95 plus cd. Not that it was near useless in Windows 95 as it was obsolete in 1995 when it came out.
Ah the days where you had to FTP from the Dos prompt to get your first browser. Fun
That was a sexy geek OS on top of Unix back in the day before it morphed into present day MacOSX when Steve Jobs brought it along to Apple.
It had right mouse button clicking and the menus and dockable icons and launchers (though were not on the buttom) but the concept was part of Windows 95 to its core with the start menu emulating much of it.
AfterStep which was Robs founder of slashdot favorite back in the day as well as WindowMaker were WM's which tried to clone part of the functionality into Linux at the turn of the century. WindowMaker was the most popular before Kde and then Gnome started to mature to what we have today.
But but its not init!!! Get out the tar and feathers
3...2...1..
Really? You are comparing Gnome 3/kde 4.x to a modern working start menu?
I'm not comparing Gnome3 to anything; Gnome3 sucks. KDE has a proper "modern" start menu, it's the way the Windows start menu should have been all along. The "menu" (which isn't a menu at all) in Metro is bullshit.
Is it crap because it is inferior?
Yes. It's absolute garbage. It's ugly, it's confusing, it even has two separate control panels for some stupid reason (there's a metro control panel, but it doesn't have much stuff in it, so you have to go find the hidden Win7-style control panel to actually change things). There is nothing good about it. It's obviously designed for tablets, but I'm not using a tablet. And if I were, it'd still be ugly as hell. WTF is with the ugly graphics and colors? It's like the Pontiac Aztek of UIs.
These applets you hate you do not have to use.
You still have to use the Metro interface any time you click on "start", unless you install some 3rd-party workaround software.
Actually that is not metro. The old control panel is scheduled to go away but the marketing department just couldn't wait back to school sadly so it is was only half done.
The hamburger menus of the new is what kids and millennial prefer to use as it is what their phones and websites have been using since they were born. What we think is natural an old mac style menu's seem ugly and counter intuitive to them as a result. It is a win32 app.
Yes colors for title bars they are reading back as it was rushed ala Vista style in October with update 1. Just drag off the tiles you want and the menu is back.
What 8 sucked at was closed door syndrome. Things fly out at you. One app comes and everything is invisible. Stuff randomly opens and closes when you use a touchpad is another. All of them fixed.
I am waiting and you may not like but it surely is not unusable nor designed for tablets. It functions just like 7. You hit the WIndows key and type what you want. Or use a mouse if you like the old XP way of all programs which many have not learned a way. Anyway each to their own. I could use 10 if someone put a gun to my head. On 8 I needed several paid programs to undo the damage in comparison.
I could say the same with factories 100 years ago and had statistics prove it! But a middle class formed in the US and Europe in the 19th century at the same time.
I could go back 30 years ago and say the same with computers and humans won't know math anymore. True computers short term eliminated some book keepers. Long time we had silicon valley and a whole new profession or professions invented.
Competition will lower prices and yes it will be awhile before India, China, Africa, and perhaps some day Russia after Putin is gone. Yes more companies from these countries will come in. But we have a century or two of more growth as many wasted human potential doing little or no value work right now will be working which will spread the wealth etc.
What people who are not in IT realize is that we also answer to finance, HR, and legal.
Just the other day HR gave us written warnings and started documenting what I said. WTF. Why? The client came in and demanded all applicants applying MUST HAVE ACCESS TO PERSONAL EMAIL on our network from anyone off the street?!
For the background we are a call center company who has HIPAA and PCI compliance that we use the same switches, routers, and servers. Oh yeah, gee no risk at all of a virus or keylogger coming on spreading and violating the contracts of all the other clients.
HR and management snuck in some Samsung tablets and put in our secret wifi password to get around corporate IT and then were infuriated when we threatened to report them. After all we were so lazy and power hungry and do nothing all day but are an expense etc.
It got bad and I tried to get my boss to have the client communicate with the CIO and executive VP's. If they raise a fit they will do so with other VP's who will turn them are you out of mind?! No.
IT may look out of place but our function is to answer to legal and enforce our contracts with our other customers. Sorry HR who went around and promised without consulting we can just lift all security and have anyone do what they please. It is a crappy job sometimes but it is not that we hate change. If I disabled this my boss and myself would have been fired and the company fined.
Really? You are comparing Gnome 3/kde 4.x to a modern working start menu?
Is it crap because it is inferior? Or are you just not used to it due to muscle memory? I do not see Metro. I just see icons which dynamically change with info. Infact it is not metro enough on my surface tablet and too optimized for the desktop in my opinion if you ever owned one. But that is why 10 now has tablet mode.
But really the tile is just an icon with updated info. Outlook and use this too. These applets you hate you do not have to use.
Actually by next summer thanks to VS 2015 you will see ported IOS and Android apps as they can use up to 80% of the same code to be compatible with the universal API doing the other 20%. You can Dalvek and objective-C and clang to write apps.
But I am not a fanboy as I have an earlier version of Windows right now due to needing the same version of Hyper-V as 2012 R2 which is 8.1 for the time being. It works just fine.
Last I looked plumbers still make more than doctors.
I keep hearing this, but all the data I can find does plumbers making on average ~$60k and general practitioners ~$140k.
I needed some work done for a kitchen. They standard rate was between $100hr - $150 an hour.
Yes plumbers make 6 figures. Seeing a doctor costs about the same too and they have a full staff to pay like a receptionist, nurse, transcribers, liability insurance, etc. In the end the doctor who charges $150,000 is also a top income earning and pays %50 tax. He or she probably takes home around $65,000 a year after all the costs are incurred. True some plumbers get paid $60,000 too! There boss gets the other $60,000 for their work. Costs are much lower.
If you are an indepent plumber you can keep most of that money are skim off the top %50 of the junior ones working for you!
The reason their salary is high is kept up with inflation and automation. Everyone else but the CEO has went down.
Unionize and you can say India real fast! Most companies that are not union will simply close shop. It is not only Walmart who eliminates the deli position at all stores because of 1 unionized location.
With a global marketshare we need to compete. Putting up more barriers will just have them ignore the US entirely. Infact Coke mentioned they hardly make any money in America anymore. If they left the US they will only be down 12% profits or something silly.
If they had to unionize Coke will simply survive just fine being based in India or China and selling everywhere outside the US etc.
Where westerners can compete is value for dollar, speciality, and being onsite and local for meetings and to ensure something is done right. Yes you can find experienced Chinese manufacturers and Indians but you lose in the supply chain as Just In Time inventory actually increases costs which the accountants do not see. Apple is the only company even having an ok JIT inventory system. Everyone else will happily lose more on unsold inventory to save a few pennies in labor costs and lawsuits from greedy employees.
Anyway it is what it is.
Really?
Tell that to my fellow grads who got degrees in accounting. No one could find a job :-(
Excel and VBA took over book keeper jobs. You can't get a CPA without experience and a masters degree and you can't get experience without being a book keeper. A catch 22.
Really most large companies use Quicken and Excel to do their jobs and people in India to do a double check with the numbers. Those with experience and 22 credits in finance can take the CPA ... oh and to get anyway with real experience to pass HR you need to do 2 year internships at the top 3 accounting firms for 70 hours a week to prove yourself.
It seems more jobs pay less, work more, and have steeper requirements as time goes on. Automation is putting the squeeze in this area for everyone and yes even IT. Object oriented programming and better tools cost programmers more jobs too. IT jobs typically have more hours today than 10 years ago because so many have been replaced and are higher to work 14 hours if you include a pizza.
The incentive is made by the CEO and CIO of the company to cut costs. Not you. Similar analogy? I downgraded to a crappy DSl connection :-( Why? Comcast wanted $100 a month with no TV just for internet??! Fuck that. I went to DSL to save money. I know it is not as good but my priorities is I will tolerate it as I have bills to pay.
A CIO knows they get inferior work by outsourcing and using programs to replace people. However, the savings make the pain worth it. Same principle.
Plumbers have to buy truck and expensive tools, and they don't get paid for driving to your house so that's built into their hourly rate. Doctors only need to buy stethoscope (and those will soon cost $0.30 to 3d print) which lasts his whole career, plus he gets kickbacks from Big Pharma for pushing their drugs. So in the end plumber is worse off than doctor.
Doctors have to buy some very expensive database HIPPA compliant software, transcribers, nurses, receptionists, and ultra expensive medical equipment if they have a speciality. The plumber wins as IT people need expensive certs, and also vans/trucks too. IT has it the best as the cost of getting a MCSE or Cisco is just several thousand dollars and maybe up to $10k if you want some instructor led courses at the most.