>Attitudes like yours are why so many American women are looking outside of America for men. And thanks for that.
True, of course, we're busy trying to hook up with foreign women. We should personally give thanks to the permissive cultures witnessed in locations like Montreal, London, all of Spain, Denmark, Germany, if your lucky Senegal, Austrialia, South Africa, Italy, Brazil (aiieee!) and others.
I think our multicultural focus is just different that the Canucks. Learn about foreign cultures the fun way!
This survey backs the general view in both the UK and US that *certain* IT professionals are self pitying loners without much appreciation or knowledge of how the rest of the world works, or lives.
The survey in this case can be considered a pulse of the disatisfaction these malcontents have with there personal life, and in order to avoid taking responsibility reflect that unhappiness by resenting their job and various authority figures. Most of these guys (and they are mostly guys) voluntarily put in more time than is asked of them, even counting time surfing the web or playing quake as time that they were "forced" to work. They remember the one 80 hour week as their weekly average work week.
Compared to many other jobs; IT management positions are well paid, safe, clean, have regular hours, vacation, (health insurance in the US), and on average is more secure against layoff. Not perfectly so, but very much on the better end of the scale.
We've all seen this phenom. The good news is that as this type of job become more of a commodity - through better tools and spread of knowledge - the people in these positions will largely be chosen, among other things, their attitude. So I expect job satisfaction will self regulate to a certain degree.
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>Attitudes like yours are why so many American women are looking outside of America for men. And thanks for that.
True, of course, we're busy trying to hook up with foreign women. We should personally give thanks to the permissive cultures witnessed in locations like Montreal, London, all of Spain, Denmark, Germany, if your lucky Senegal, Austrialia, South Africa, Italy, Brazil (aiieee!) and others.
I think our multicultural focus is just different that the Canucks. Learn about foreign cultures the fun way!
Fair trade I say.
This survey backs the general view in both the UK and US that *certain* IT professionals are self pitying loners without much appreciation or knowledge of how the rest of the world works, or lives. The survey in this case can be considered a pulse of the disatisfaction these malcontents have with there personal life, and in order to avoid taking responsibility reflect that unhappiness by resenting their job and various authority figures. Most of these guys (and they are mostly guys) voluntarily put in more time than is asked of them, even counting time surfing the web or playing quake as time that they were "forced" to work. They remember the one 80 hour week as their weekly average work week. Compared to many other jobs; IT management positions are well paid, safe, clean, have regular hours, vacation, (health insurance in the US), and on average is more secure against layoff. Not perfectly so, but very much on the better end of the scale. We've all seen this phenom. The good news is that as this type of job become more of a commodity - through better tools and spread of knowledge - the people in these positions will largely be chosen, among other things, their attitude. So I expect job satisfaction will self regulate to a certain degree.