From: Kevin Freels (megaquark@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 13:26:43 MDT
I was talking in general terms, however if you want to be specific, let's
talk a bit about IT people.
I'll go back to 1993. I was 4 years out of high-school paying child support
and broke. I had always been good with computers, but had yet to develop
into the person I am now who tries to see the BIG picture.
I decided to go back to school for a computer science degree. In 1997 I
received my degree. There were jobs-a-plenty. BUT, there were many many many
people working to get the same education.
By the time the tech market went bust, there was a glutton of people capable
of performing the same job as myself. This gave us a double-whammy! Less
jobs, more people capable of doing those jobs! Also with the internet came
the ability to do these jobs from afar.
Now, I should have seen this coming. I knew the capabilities of the coming
technologies. I knew how everyone and their brother was going to school for
some kind of IT training. I was also developing my BIG picture abilities
which have nothing to do with IT.
Now when I look at it, I can project into the future. Here is what I see:
A limited period where IT jobs will be performed worldwide by the lowest
bidders. This will be followed by software and hardware that makes IT
positions worthless.
The only IT money left will be for those who design and implement the new
technologies as they are developed, and those who market and sell it. It
only makes sense that your only choice if you wish to stay in IT is to
increase your education in the field, or move into a sales position.
Of course, when AI is developed, maybe the software will design and sell
itself!
----- Original Message -----
From: <Spudboy100@aol.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Was Re: PHYSICS: force fields (RANT)
> Kevin Freels stated:
> <<In the future, people in this country are going to be faced with a
choice. To become educated, or to starve. Hopefully, the majority of people
choose the former. The argument that cheap labor overseas is going to kill
our economy is just garbage. People can move into the country, or jobs can
move out. It doesn;t matter. Eventually, economic expansion will improve the
lives of everyone. >>
>
> The educated are the ones taking it up the ass, nowadays, not the blue
collar folks. Or don't you consider developers, and network admins educated?
These are the folks whose jobs have been and are being off-shored. You
stated that people can move into the country. Should Americans move into
Brazil or India to follow these jobs? You said eventually the economic
expansion will improves the lives of everyone. Is this before or after the
US economy is debstablized? Companies which used to make products and sell
services are now prone to merely squeeze costs and off-shore jobs, merely to
deceive their stockhholders, into thinking that saved costs is the same as
growth .
>
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