I was forced out of programming by early retirement offer from LU. The jobs that were left were sent to Poland, China, and India.
In one case, a friend of mine was laid off at Lucent two years after I was ER'ed. She along with 29 other people in their department. 5 were retained an extra two months to train exactly 30 folks from Poland how to do their old jobs. Programmers in Poland are as cheap as programmers in India. China programmers are even cheaper!
I'm currently way underemployed as an sysadmin and customer service rep ("hello, may I take your problem report"), paid to work only a few days a week, but it's a job (which will likely die off this year).
I don't plan on ever getting back into a real paid programming job. 4 years of BSCS, two years MSCS, and 25 years of experience worth nothing, well, maybe worth "Welcome to WalMart!"
I knew you couldn't. There is no way, a search thru M$ will ever be credible. Their current search puts M$ sites on top, M$ technologies before others, even hides other non-M$ technologies (remember the XFree86 fiasco/block which they have since removed -- but too late, Mr. Bill Gates)!
This institute is a nothing but a front for a consulting company that makes its money by recommending outsourcing/offshoring. They rig their numbers. Where are these higher level, better paying jobs? What, suddenly there are so many more PROJECT MANAGER jobs when all the work is offshored? You think we need more people? It's not a job chain of higher level work, but a freaking job PYRAMID. The higher you go the less jobs at the top. Think about it. When they built the Egyptian pyramids, and used all that cheap labor, how many architects were needed? "Don't believe the HYPE!"
Yes, don't stop your degree, but be willing to broaden your base, perhaps some international business courses, system architecture, etc. Coding is a commodity. You need to be higher up on the food chain.
Good luck!
1) You lay someone off here in the U.S. as an example. Guess what, that is money that is not going to be used to buy products that most likely the parent company makes to some degree. Does someone in India buy dishwashers, tablesaw, etc. Not to be mean but not in the volume as here.
Sorry, but Indians do buy all these things. The only problem is that they are made in India by Indian companies!!!
sorry, but having been early retired out of Lucent and seeing the direction they are going as a sign of the times, you are 0xDEADBEEF. Better to change your major to international business with a minor in software engineering so you can play the role of liason to these offshored projects for your master overseers!
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In one case, a friend of mine was laid off at Lucent two years after I was ER'ed. She along with 29 other people in their department. 5 were retained an extra two months to train exactly 30 folks from Poland how to do their old jobs. Programmers in Poland are as cheap as programmers in India. China programmers are even cheaper!
I'm currently way underemployed as an sysadmin and customer service rep ("hello, may I take your problem report"), paid to work only a few days a week, but it's a job (which will likely die off this year).
I don't plan on ever getting back into a real paid programming job. 4 years of BSCS, two years MSCS, and 25 years of experience worth nothing, well, maybe worth "Welcome to WalMart!"
His name was Nick Berg.
FP?
There is a young women in Columbus, Ohio, USA, whose father named her "Trillion" but put 10^12 on her birth certificate.
I knew you couldn't. There is no way, a search thru M$ will ever be credible. Their current search puts M$ sites on top, M$ technologies before others, even hides other non-M$ technologies (remember the XFree86 fiasco/block which they have since removed -- but too late, Mr. Bill Gates)!
So, how long have you worked for M$, AC?
FP?
Makes you wonder who wrote this software? Offshore developers?
How about Windblows? Or more correctly spelled Windblow$
This institute is a nothing but a front for a consulting company that makes its money by recommending outsourcing/offshoring. They rig their numbers. Where are these higher level, better paying jobs? What, suddenly there are so many more PROJECT MANAGER jobs when all the work is offshored? You think we need more people? It's not a job chain of higher level work, but a freaking job PYRAMID. The higher you go the less jobs at the top. Think about it. When they built the Egyptian pyramids, and used all that cheap labor, how many architects were needed? "Don't believe the HYPE!"
May God Shiva Bless him and his offspring!
My son and I take old PC's and monitors out in the backyard and shoot them with rifles and pistols! Great fun.
Yes, don't stop your degree, but be willing to broaden your base, perhaps some international business courses, system architecture, etc. Coding is a commodity. You need to be higher up on the food chain. Good luck!
Uh, you mean Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 GMT 2038, doncha?
Sorry, but Indians do buy all these things. The only problem is that they are made in India by Indian companies!!!
sorry, but having been early retired out of Lucent and seeing the direction they are going as a sign of the times, you are 0xDEADBEEF. Better to change your major to international business with a minor in software engineering so you can play the role of liason to these offshored projects for your master overseers!