Re: Midrange Jobs National Discussion -- MIDRANGE-JOBS

Wake up everybody!

There was a book: Decline and Fall of the American Programmer that spokeabout

the situation that many IT professionals are facing.

He mentioned the shift of corporation workforce to outsourcing, and the factthat manycorporations which resided in USA would be bought and relocated to countriesoutside ofthe USA. Next, the Global economy would affect the It market for Americanprogrammers.

Nobody, believed this could happen, but it has and will continue into thefuture.

So, what can we do? We have to become diversified in our IT skills.Furthermore, we must

learn skills that are not tied to a specific platform like the AS400.

.Net, C++, object oriented software development, web, database, and webservices in particular can be used on many different platforms. These skillsare marketable.

American programmer have gone from the preferred employee to one of manycompetingfor IT jobs. Employers can virtually look worldwide for talent. They are nolonger tied to looking only

in the USA. The american programmer must compete for his job now.

-MJ

From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Midrange Jobs National Discussion
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:42:34 -0600

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Tyra wrote:
> So after 26 years in the industry my choices are to learn a new
> language and operating system and then hope that those jobs aren't
> outsourced in 5 years.  Its not worth it to me at this point.

This kind of thing kind of baffles me ... as an information technology
professional, I consider it to be part and parcel of my job to learn new
technology, languages, operating systems, etc.

Yes, I'm a computer geek ... I *ENJOY* playing with hardware and
software in my spare time.  And, honestly, I seriously doubt I would
have nearly as much value to my current employer if I didn't play with
technology.

Of course, I also saw the writing on the wall ... non-homogeneous system
integration was, and is, the wave of the future ... and if don't at
least UNDERSTAND what the other systems are doing, you are going to be
at a serious disadvantage.

david

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