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In article <1992Apr8.130314.2201@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
  dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:

>........................................................By way of 
>comparison, I am currently finishing my PhD in theoretical physics
>and as soon as I am done, I will be looking for a job in software
>because there are NO jobs in physics.  Part of the problem with cs
>jobs is that there are a lot of people like me around who slop over
>from other fields to pollute your job market.


I believe that most of the jobs are going to be for people who have
degrees in something else, but also know their way around a computer.

Discount prices for PCs and the like have now reached the point where
they are comparable to the price you would pay for a good circular
saw.
Software prices aren't much different.
This cannot help but change the way people regard computers. They are
now just tools, and (except for the large companies in the mass
market - Microsoft et. al.) what is wanted is someone who knows how to
use the tool for medical/accounting/astronomical/etc. purposes.

Or at least that is my rationalisation for the fact that I can't even
get interviews despite having worked on minis and mainframes for about
25 years. (Being 54 and not possessing a degree in anything doesn't
help, of course, but it still seems to me that the entire nature of
the business has changed).


-- 
                      | He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Roy Millar            | Without the least vestige of land,
                      | And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
                      | A map they could all understand.  - L. Carroll.