[fourdeuce82d]

Phillipino engineers working for American firms at salaries of $3,000 annually, and Chinese and Indians working for $5,000 to $10,000 annually are unbeatable competition.

Yes and no- my girlfriend runs staffing for one of the major US engineering companies, both internal and external. She says that when they bid on jobs in foreign countries, even asian/middle eastern countries will demand the jobs be staffed with American/British engineers.

I think *some* jobs will migrate over seas and stay, other jobs will turn out to require native fluency in English, an American work ethic, and the ability to have face to face contact- not tele/video-conferencing.

[A2J]

I think *some* jobs will migrate over seas and stay, other jobs will turn out to require native fluency in English, an American work ethic, and the ability to have face to face contact- not tele/video-conferencing.

Good points.

I work with the Chinese everyday and I can tell you that they no likey the "face to face contact" because Americans intimidate them, as many of them have told me.

[freeper12]

>>an American work ethic,

Care to share what you mean by that? I have hired people in china/pakistan and india and every single one of them had a work ethic that was far superior to even the above average person I hired here...when I could even find them at the height of the dot-com boom.


There may be some valid reasons why some outsourcing won't work, but from personal experience, I would not throw in "work ethic" as one of them. There are plenty of lazy slackers in this country that think becuase they know a little html they are a programmer and they are owed a 6 figure paycheck.