A view to windward.
The IT rust belt...
Do you live to code? If you don't and that's your job, move on. Bob Lewis, InfoWorld columnist, forsees doom for the million U.S. programmers. I must agree. [a klog apart]
Do you honestly believe that this applies to just programmers? Do you believe this just applies to the IT industry? Where I currently work is in the middle of outsourcing everything to India. I spoke with my Dad about what happened the last time everyone tried to outsource coding to India. India wound up with a large number of cobol coders (writing cobol that no one in the western world could understand) and the rest of the world moved on to mini's and pc's. The real lesson here is one that hasn't changed in the IT industry since it started. Expect your current job to be obsolete in 18 months. You must always be searching for the next opening. The new tech. The next approach. Figuring out how to sell this to the uncountable hordes of late adopters. But you already instinctivly know this. You read 'blogs. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog]
My company is starting towards moving it's programming to India as well. Nobody here really knows what their future with the company will be or how it will work out, but I do think the Indians will mainly end up with the work that no one else wants to do. It may be time for the rest of us to move on to something that cannot easily be outsourced.
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