Gee a guy over 35 with a wedding band on his finger; is he married or not? Tough one to answer. Does he probably have kids? Another tough question to answer.
I guess that is one thing that experienced programmers have at least we can think logically.
You can do better in this economy. It depends on your age whether or not you can do better. If you have been with a company a long time it is often difficult to leave for the same or more money. You have been reading to many articles in the press and probably not tried to find a real job recently, either that or you are under 35. It is damned difficult to find a CS job right now unless you have a specific high demand skill with experience to back it up.
As I said in a previous post, half a dozen of my friends are out of work and have been for some time. I have others who have taken positions at almost one half of their previous salary, now does that sound like a shortage to you?
When you review some of the comments you may want to take a close look at those who are posting them. For instance The poster who spells labor as labour. Good bet this is not someone from the US and probably has a bent toward h-1b's.
I am not anti immigrant (my wife is Asian), but the h-1b program is being abused. I have over half a dozen close friends who are out of work and have been for some time, yet congress wants to bring in 600,000 more h-1bs in addition to the close to 1/2 million already here. I guess maybe I have a slight bent against the program that was once well intentioned I think.
Now the only purpose is for large corporations to bring in cheap indentured labor (not labour) and oust older (over 35) programmers. Yes, my friends use older technology, but they have trained on the newer languages like Java, but still no one wants to hire them.
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Gee a guy over 35 with a wedding band on his finger; is he married or not? Tough one to answer. Does he probably have kids? Another tough question to answer. I guess that is one thing that experienced programmers have at least we can think logically.
You can do better in this economy. It depends on your age whether or not you can do better. If you have been with a company a long time it is often difficult to leave for the same or more money. You have been reading to many articles in the press and probably not tried to find a real job recently, either that or you are under 35. It is damned difficult to find a CS job right now unless you have a specific high demand skill with experience to back it up. As I said in a previous post, half a dozen of my friends are out of work and have been for some time. I have others who have taken positions at almost one half of their previous salary, now does that sound like a shortage to you?
When you review some of the comments you may want to take a close look at those who are posting them. For instance The poster who spells labor as labour. Good bet this is not someone from the US and probably has a bent toward h-1b's. I am not anti immigrant (my wife is Asian), but the h-1b program is being abused. I have over half a dozen close friends who are out of work and have been for some time, yet congress wants to bring in 600,000 more h-1bs in addition to the close to 1/2 million already here. I guess maybe I have a slight bent against the program that was once well intentioned I think. Now the only purpose is for large corporations to bring in cheap indentured labor (not labour) and oust older (over 35) programmers. Yes, my friends use older technology, but they have trained on the newer languages like Java, but still no one wants to hire them. http://www.h1breform.freeservers.com