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jjp (jjp76@yahoo.com) wrote:
: 
: I don't know where in this country IT is any good right now. 

Correct, since the IT industry, along with IT-enabled jobs, as well
as many engineering and R&D jobs are being relocated overseas to
India, Communist China, Vietnam, Russia, et.al.

Ford Motor Co. opened a datacenter in India in 2001, anticipating
a savings between $ 30 million and $ 60 million from the cheaper
labor in India, compared to what Ford paid Americans, URL wrapped to
two lines:

   http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/
   software/appdev/story/0,10801,58739,00.html
   Ford opens IT hub in India to save millions | 
   Computerworld News & Feature Stories


  "...Ford plans to open a major IT hub in Chennai, India on March 29:

   o  The 80,000-square-foot facility will cost about $10 million to equip.
   o  It will handle CAD/CAM development, e-mail processing and application
      development.
   o  The staff will include 700 to 1000 outsourced developers and e-mail
      processors.
   o  Ford expects to save $30 million to $60 million per year..."

So much for "Buy American".  :-(


: Medical is the field to be in right now, and Houston is the city for that.
: Largest medical center district in the country, and good pay from what
: I hear.
: 

Perhaps, if you have the money for training and aren't over 55 like me. 
But even the medical field is being globalized.

The UK's socialized medicine system has paid to send some patients to 
South Africa for surgery to save money.

French surgeons have performed surgery on patients in the U.S. via robots.

And radiologists in India are being used to interpret xrays, thanks to
the internet (URL wrapped to two lines):

   http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?
   newsno=16072&newscat=Technology
   India to provide clinical services to the U.S.
   
  "BANGALORE: Harnessing its highly developed information technology and
   medical skills, India will soon provide emergency room services and
   clinical process outsourcing (CPO) to hospitals in the U.S.

   The first step towards extending remote healthcare services has been
   taken by Indian IT major Wipro's healthcare and life science business
   division, which has tied up with a major hospital at Massachusetts.
   Images of the radiology scans from the unnamed hospital would be
   viewed here at the Manipal hospital, which has got the outsourcing
   contract from Wipro. The reports would be sent back in the shortest
   possible time by radiologists..."

The practice is known as "offshore teleradiology":

   http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/cgi-bin/webcast01/display_news.cgi?85
   Offshore teleradiology could help solve U.S. staffing needs
   
  "Links with offshore teleradiology could be a way to meet staffing
   needs in a tight radiologist market, according to a pair of
   presentations at the RSNA meeting Tuesday..."
   

   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=9101731
   City radiologist is tele-consultant for US hospitals - The Times of India
                                      
   [snip]

  "The obvious question is why and how the US is benefiting?

   "There is an explosion in emergency coverage during nights, and there
   is a 20 per cent shortage in radiology workforce in the US. Night call
   radiologists are expensive there. The idea is to exploit global time
   difference as a way to turn their night into my day. It is effective
   cost wise and gives me the opportunity to contribute to emergency care
   across the world," Kalyanpur says..."

Do a google search for "telehealth" and "telemedicine".

Nobody knows many jobs are being relocated overseas and the result impact
on tax revenues, which have dropped suddenly in the last five months:

   http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1551296
   HoustonChronicle.com - U.S. budget surplus has shriveled by 60%

  "WASHINGTON -- The most dramatic drop in tax revenue since 1946 has put
   the government into deficit for the next three years and has shriveled
   the projected 10-year federal budget surplus by 60 percent in just
   five months, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday..."

There is NO government agency chartered to track offshore job relocations
and their resultant effects. 

--Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
  Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email