jobs in Linux / IT

[Peter]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, James Knott wrote:

> Robert Brockway wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, paul sutton wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks,  I have one in pdf on my personal website, will update and
>>> post there,  and put a link, and perhaps summerise on the list,
>>> otherwise it could end up as a big post.
>>
>> Hi Paul.  See you are showing clue already - a big plus :)
>>
>> I do have a serious reason for posting.  Don't get disillusioned if you
>> don't find IT work here as easily as you thought you might (or as easily
>> as you did at home).  Many Canadian companies seek "Canadian experience".
>
> Whenever I hear about that, I have to wonder how Canadian computers
> differ from those in other countries.. What's really disgusting is that
> at a time when we're short of doctors in this province, immigrant
> doctors are driving cabs or flipping burgers!  Why isn't there some sort
> of supervised work program, to enable them to get started?

What I 'like' most about this is, that actual cabdrivers cannot 
immigrate due to the point system, whereas an MD can, and then cannot 
practice before passing his equivalence exams. And everyone knows this. 
Maybe they think it's cool to have a cab driver with a PhD. At least he 
would know how to read the map and not get lost.

Incidentally Canada is not the only immigration country that has such 
'standards'.

Peter
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