To: techie12
No doubt. I've been a software developer since 1988, and the job market is terrible. Companies are no longer willing to pay the big bucks anymore for guys like me. Over the past 12 months I've actually considered a change of careers.
9 posted on
03/03/2004 4:13:54 PM PST by
iowaboy
To: iowaboy
a change of careers The job situation is not improving in general, so a total change of thinking is required. Rather than thinking job, think business. That's what Gates did.
11 posted on
03/03/2004 4:16:42 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: iowaboy; techie12; All
Ahem.....Microsoft is LAYING OFF Database Administrators RIGHT NOW.....telling them they have 6 weeks to find a job within (or without) Microsoft......They are outsourcing to India....our friend just got his notice....and his boss didn't even have the guts to tell him....made HR do it. MSFT is a weenie company!!!
14 posted on
03/03/2004 4:28:47 PM PST by
goodnesswins
(Dedicated to Mel Gibson - my new idol)
To: iowaboy
"No doubt. I've been a software developer since 1988, and the job market is terrible. Companies are no longer willing to pay the big bucks anymore for guys like me. Over the past 12 months I've actually considered a change of careers."
Ditto, I'm trying hard to get out. Not that I've stopped programming, I'm now programming like the dickens, but for myself. Companies just don't appreciate it if you write even the best code for them, they just won't pay. Since the code is invisible to the enduser, it has become worthless in their eyes.
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