I couldn't agree more - but be prepared to get to know the business you're in, and understand the big picture. If you're worried about being offshored, stick to positions higher up the food chain that require direct end user contact - Architect, Analyst, Technical Project Manager (keyword there is "technical" - not just some bozo with a PMP.)
As for the argument that you have to be a keyboard banger before you can move to architect, well, I don't buy it. I doubt most building architects don't know the ins and outs of the HVAC or exactly how to plumb a building correctly, but they know enough about how those things work that they can design them into the building without a catastrophe.
Just did a search for Detroit and scrolled South (because Canada is South of D-town) and whaddya know - I get a turn by turn to my favorite rendition of the Windsor Ballet!
That's not a better analogy. Apple's making money off both the player (iPod) and the replaceable (songs). When's the last time Pioneer or Clarion or Sony (well, maybe Sony) took a cut of the CD's after selling the CD player?
After reading the same comments over and over on this subject, and seeing the analogies to manufafcturing that has been lost to other countries, there is one big difference. By and large, the manufacturing jobs that have been shipped to low cost countries are low level, production line type gigs that require little more than putting screw A into hole B. The workers that lose those jobs have little else going for them in terms of education, marketable skills, etc. (with a few exceptions). And that's the difference - we're talking about highly educated and skilled people that are now losing jobs. Although it sucks that it works that way, it seems to me that techy type folks should be able to parlay that experience and eduaction into other areas. And those techies that haven't focused solely on hard tech skills and are more adept at some of the softer "people" skills are going to be much better off as jobs are moved off-shore in greater numbers.
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I couldn't agree more - but be prepared to get to know the business you're in, and understand the big picture. If you're worried about being offshored, stick to positions higher up the food chain that require direct end user contact - Architect, Analyst, Technical Project Manager (keyword there is "technical" - not just some bozo with a PMP.) As for the argument that you have to be a keyboard banger before you can move to architect, well, I don't buy it. I doubt most building architects don't know the ins and outs of the HVAC or exactly how to plumb a building correctly, but they know enough about how those things work that they can design them into the building without a catastrophe.
Just did a search for Detroit and scrolled South (because Canada is South of D-town) and whaddya know - I get a turn by turn to my favorite rendition of the Windsor Ballet!
That's not a better analogy. Apple's making money off both the player (iPod) and the replaceable (songs). When's the last time Pioneer or Clarion or Sony (well, maybe Sony) took a cut of the CD's after selling the CD player?
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After reading the same comments over and over on this subject, and seeing the analogies to manufafcturing that has been lost to other countries, there is one big difference. By and large, the manufacturing jobs that have been shipped to low cost countries are low level, production line type gigs that require little more than putting screw A into hole B. The workers that lose those jobs have little else going for them in terms of education, marketable skills, etc. (with a few exceptions). And that's the difference - we're talking about highly educated and skilled people that are now losing jobs. Although it sucks that it works that way, it seems to me that techy type folks should be able to parlay that experience and eduaction into other areas. And those techies that haven't focused solely on hard tech skills and are more adept at some of the softer "people" skills are going to be much better off as jobs are moved off-shore in greater numbers.