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Article #1952Re: Retraining to expand Skills
From: DontOutsourceMe
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:55
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:55
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"Advertiser" <advertiser@VideoClassified.com> wrote in message news:<908c39b8ac6a4c5696f4a0b5a91cdfbf@news.teranews.com>...
> Hi there.
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> Unfortunately what happened to you is what happened to me too.
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> I've studied math and computers at University for seven years and was a
> successful programmer for twelve years after that. Now with all past
> experience and knowledge of all latest and greatest .NET , C# etc stuff I
> can't get any response on my resume, let alone getting an interview.
To maintain a 24 hour continuous product development cycle, you have
to have software engineers at both ends. For example Oracle and
Microsoft have such advanced cycles. These cycles are NOT EASY to
establish and themselves require very complex engineering. As such,
today very few companies have demonstrated such capabilites of
planning and coordination across continents. However, as more and
more companies develop these capabilites of 24/7 development cycles,
employment in the US in IT sector will grow as engineers are required
at this end too, for a continuous product development cycle.
Now, offshore outsourcing is going to create huge profits for
companies. These companies are going to re-invest these profits to
develop appropriate processes to maintain a continuous product
development cycle. This will result in some high-end programming and
design job creation here in the US. This will happen after a couple
of years when companies start realizing the profits of outsourcing
that they are doing now. So keep your fingers crossed and you might
just land up with a job in the near future.
For now, outsourcing is going to be relentless!!!
dontoutsourcemyjob
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> So it occurred to me that now is the time to change my career path. One can'
> t revive a dead body (I mean IT industry) by kicking it harder (beefing
> his/her skills). So I looked at newspapers and magazines and it occurred to
> me that drivers of heavy trucks are in short supply now. This kind of job is
> much harder to outsource than programmer's work and as a result of a decline
> in programmers' pay rate the wages of truck drivers aren't much different
> from programmers' ones.
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> As a last tribute to my IT career, I've set up a WEB site, but couldn't
> convince anybody to use it.
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> Good luck to all you readers with your next career move.
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> New inexperienced truck driver with 12 years of programming experience.
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> advertiser@VideoClassified.com
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> "Redd" <javatek?@usa.com> wrote in message
> news:q%3Ab.282$nH.143@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> > I am an unemployed programmer unable to find work in this field
> > for over two years. Recently I decided to return to Technical School
> > to retrain in the most current areas. Areas like .NET technology, etc.
> > Due to the large number of foreign workers in America , it was my
> > belief that there was supposed to be money available to retrain
> > displaced American technical workers. I can tell you that I can not
> > even find a part-time or temp job to earn enough money to cover
> > my tuition. What is a person to do ?
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> > javatek?@usa.com
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> > remove the ? to reply.
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