Re: IT jobs?

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From: Frank Matthews
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:31

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Jerry Leslie wrote:
> Diogenes (Diogenes@nospam-ev1.net) wrote:
> : Where in Texas (or Earth, for that matter) is the best city as far as
> : employment is concerned?

> If you're in IT, Houston's NOT the place to find work:
> 
>    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1582876
>    HoustonChronicle.com - Working: 
>    Computer professionals, at crossroads, take new path

> IT jobs are going the way of most manufacturing jobs before them:

>    http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/08/26/daily56.html
>    Intel holds job fairs for 'redeployed' employees, while hiring overseas -
> 
>   "Intel Corp., Oregon's largest technology employer, is proceeding with
>    previously announced job cuts, while hiring software engineers for its
>    development center in India..."

It will be interesting to see how successful the export of IT jobs will be.
Personally, I doubt that companies will be able to ship most of the work 
out.
IT tends to be a pretty quick response environment.  The time shift will 
prove troublesome.  As will the need for interaction to resolve 
problems.  Then again, most IT groups aren't into finding out needs but 
rather telling folks what to do so maybe they can be shipped out.

I expect, though, that IT will follow in the footsteps of Aerospace 
Engineering & Chemical Engineering and drop into a regular boom/bust 
cycle.  That appears to be the way of technology in business.

Frank Matthews

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