Women in IT (Aug 3). Online freedom of speech (Aug 5th)

[Ahmad]

Andrew Hammond wrote:
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>>        I agree on that. As IT globalises (read: outsources), those
>> that are specialised have a hard time, because they're replaced in
>> waves.
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> Outsourcing has turned out to be less cost-effective than originally
> imagined. People who whine about having lost their job to India, in my
> experience either were
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> 1) code grinders or data entry technicians (assuming there's a difference)
> 2) working on boring crap anyway
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No this is wrong.  I use to think that India would never get decent 
software engineering jobs and especially not R & D jobs but they have.
Oracle has lots of development jobs in India.  Microsoft has a poured 
lots of cash into a company to do R & D and software engineering for new 
Microsoft products.  Let's hope Indian software developers are worse 
than U of Waterloo ones.  Heck Microsoft has poured a lot of money into 
Indian I.T. period.  IBM is right behind them.  Linux and Unix work in 
India too.  Check Monster India to see the jobs they have there.  I saw 
job postings that seem to fit the experience you have.  Nothing like 
hearing from the business drones in the media "Jobless recovery.". 
"I.T. sector down 17% in Canada this year."



I guess I might stay here and practice saying "Would you like to super 
size that?" or I can try and get a visa to India(I think it is tough to 
get one) and write software for about the same salary as a Fry 
Technician here.


Awww yeah Dorothy, I.T. is going bye bye.
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