Re: A little learning...

Agreed, Ken.  All the more reason to jump on any opportunity an employer may 
give to learn & use a
new skill that is valuable in the job marketplace.  I would imagine, but don't 
know for certain,
that simpler, older technology work (think purely RPG coding) would be 
off-shored much more often
than more complex or "newer" technology work (think Java & RPG working in 
tandem).

I would be interested in knowing if others think I missed the mark on that.

- Dan

--- "Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>       I've been watching the Java/VB thread for awhile now, and it has jogged 
> a couple of topics
> which I'd like to discuss.
>       Have patience.
> 
>       The tendency today is for companies to NOT train their IT staff to any 
> great degree, this has
> been a growing
>       pattern for the last twenty years or more.
>       Good or bad, it's just a fact of life to-day.
>       I mentioned to a co-worker the other day, that it seems rather ironic, 
> that the IT industry has
> spent several decades
>       improving on the efficiency of delivery of systems, including Fourth 
> generation languages, just
> to have it all 
>       revert back twenty years.
>       Hello,.... windoze has us coding those same old programs, just so they 
> will look pretty on
> their platform.
>       The other disturbing trend, and there was a news media program on this 
> subject a few days ago ,
> was the 
>       increasingly large amount of coding, that is being contracted and 
> written off shore in many
> foreign countries.
>       Computer programming , it would appear, is going the way of less 
> expensive labor pools
> overseas, 
>       The concern as to which language to learn, may be mundane, if all the 
> solutions come from
> Taiwan, or India.
>       I know, I know, ..Once this difficult aspect of business is handled 
> off-shore, it will give us
> professionals so much more
>       time to do more productive things, like look for work...

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