Posted on 04/02/2006 5:54:05 PM PDT by Republican Party Reptile
Americans seeking jobs in booming Bangalore More U.S. workers heading East to beef up their resumes, launch companies
The Associated Press Updated: 2:37 p.m. ET April 2, 2006
BANGALORE, India - After graduating from Northwestern University last year, Nate Linkon contemplated job offers in Chicago and New York. But he chose a less conventional path and started his career here, in India’s booming tech capital.
The 22-year-old Milwaukee native works in marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd., India’s second-largest software exporter. He’s part of a small but growing number of young Americans moving to Bangalore and other Indian cities to beef up their resumes, launch businesses or study globalization in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Despite the traffic-choked streets, unsteady electrical supply, occasional digestive troubles and other daily frustrations of life in India, Linkon has no regrets.
“Moving to Bangalore has been the best decision of my life,” Linkon said. “Asia will only become more significant to the global economy, and having this background is invaluable.”
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My trade is rock and roll. I'm not feeling threatened at the moment.
My brother-in-law's sister married a doctor and they took their family of 3 or 4 children to India with them on a medical mission/training period of about one year. They feared for the health of their children and were really glad when it was over and got out of there. It wasn't the "culturally enriching" adventure they had anticipated.
Maybe there have been some improvements in the subsequent years, but I doubt they are all that significant.
I can see a spouse perhaps going by himself/herself for six months to a year to gain some experience, but to move the whole family there would not be feasible in many places. It would be like a serviceman leaving his family for a tour to an area where they cannot take their families because conditions there are too difficult/dangerous for wives and children.
They can take their globalism and shove it. American workers were far better off, and productive, before all this started. Like a poster above said, he adapted, but too many cannot; they can kiss their jobs and lifestyle good-bye forever because they will never have the earning power again and will be forced into subsistance wages and jobs way beneath their educational achievements.
People are criticizing on the GM thread, and they have some points, but what happens to a company like GM, your might be next. What happens in one part of the country affects all of us.
Any statistics to back that up?
its a trend. take a look at the financial news tonight - the once mighty Bell Laboratories, belongs to a French company now. Hell, at least its not HQed in Bangalore.
France's economy was in rapid decline 15 years ago. Plus their economic model if I'm not mistaken is a lot different than ours - the opposite in many repects. Why would we be France in 15 years?
Dell is using south americans now. they are actually worse in many cases.
Thank Carly "no American has a right to a job" Fiorina for running Lucent, then HP, into the ground.
Outsourcing is a panacea for incompetent executives.
Cheers!
In statistics a trend isn't based on one instance of something. What about all the U.S. investment in foreign companies? That's why there's statistics. To look at the total picture.
Are you joking? What good are statistics against a true blue, "conservative" knee-jerk reaction?
hehehehehehehehhehee....
Good catch...
like it or not ... regarding the global IT sourcing and development, certainly some people do like, some people don't.
Disagreements foster discussion.
And thank you for caring enough to explain to me what no one cares about ...
Are there other sentences that do not meet your approval and you wish to parse for my enlightenment? Or is that it?
You are right. This article is obviously making a mountain out of a mole hill. But, generally speaking, exposure to Asia is not bad because that is where the future economic powerhouses seem to be shaping up.
pass a wide guest worker program - open US service sector jobs, where many americans have fled for employment, to competition (legal) from direct importation of persons into the country - watch what happens.
in the mean time, the ranks of those employed by government are growing and growing - at all levels. they are becoming more politically powerful, demanding ever higher taxes to fund their salaries and golden retirement plans. those tensions will eventually do in the US, what they are doing in Europe.
yes - but they all run off with the loot.
I disagree that Manufacturing is in a bad shape. It is the best in the world. The problem is that the Dumbocrat policies of the past few decades and the power of unions has really diminished its value and made it totally non competitive.
Once you fix the problem of *TAXING* manufacturing, you will see a great revival.
Good, then when those nations have their own university systems that are equal to our own, then they'll also be ->consumers<- at an equivalent rate (except more, because there are 1B people in India).
Then when the Indians are busy working to satisfy Indians' need instead of Americans', the Americans can busy themselves working on our needs, so it'll all work out.
Remember the 80s, how Japan Inc. was going to take all the jobs, and America was doomed? This sort of flux is natural when a developing country hits its stride and starts entering into the ranks of developed countries.
As for manufacturing, the outlook is crud only if you're in a union shop. There WILL be some pain as we finally shed the socialist unions, though.
See http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
Bangalore -- 3rd world county, rather torn up for rapid rate of expansion... but I saw recently why Indians call it the Garden City. Reminded me of Santa Barbara, without the ocean.
Now, here is a perfect example of many thoughts expressed here. What happened to Bell Labs? One word, unions got cushy contracts for engineers who then got hopelessly out of date. I know. I had a dealership selling the wireless security system that they could not make work. AT&T spun it off, and Carly tried repackaging it as Lucent, but that was bogus. The problem was that they had old engineers who were out of date.
I don't know about ALL manufacturing, but at least in high tech electronics manufacturing what we have and continue to innovate in the U.S. is still leading edge, world class stuff.
What we move to Asia tend to be hand-me-down, fairly mature processes. But even that is hardly a move and forget process, we have to do constant audits and hands-on tweaks to keep up the required quality standards.
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