Re: The market turn-around (hh)

[DAsmussen <DAsmussen@xxxxxxx>]

Bob,

In a message dated 98-01-19 02:06:16 EST, you write:

<<snip>>
> "Well, If I send my staff to COMMON, they'll get smarter, then they'll
leave!" I
>  actually had a client express views like that!

I didn't say they were _gone_, just getting harder to find ;-)!

>  Here's one to ponder. The Labor department is proposing to spend $26
Million 
>  (USD) on High-Tech (read that computer) jobs. This money is to be used to
train
>  unemployed people to become computer programmers! SWELL. Take my hard 
>  earned tax dollars, and spend them to create competition for ME! They also
want 
>  to spend money to promote Programmers as COOL, not geeky. Get a grip. Just 
>  because we can code at the MI level, and spend hours on the net, doesn't
mean 
>  we are geeks!.  Ask my wife, or my girlfriend (Just kidding about the GF).

No fair!  Not only is it unrealistic to expect to pull people "off the street"
and make them programmers, but the "geeky" image cuts down on the competition
;-)!

>  Of course, If the Federal Government, under the direction of Daniel P.
Moynihan
>  (sp?) had not passed Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, maybe 
>  companies would be getting more choice of consultants/contractors at a
LOWER 
>  rate. For anyone not familiar with 1706, you need to know how such a
measure 
>  was tacked onto
>  the bill after 2:00a.m. the evening before the bill was voted on. Rumor has
it
>  that Computer Dynamics Inc. ot Michigan was one of the groups that pushed
for
>  this. It backfired in Houston, as their branch there went belly up soon
after the
>  bill was passed.

BTW, whatever happened to the "simplification" part of that bill ;-)?

>  Sorry about the ranting. I get this way around 1040 ES time. (Twice as bad 
> around April 15)

Don't we all?  I could afford a rather handsome salary for someone that wasn't
even billable if taxes didn't eat so much.  Off topic, though...

My Sympathies,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an
awful hurry." -- John Jensen
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