[familyop]

I met a former Hewlett Packard network analyst and administrator earlier today. He was working in a car parts store, where mostly Canadian, Mexican and Chinese items are sold. He said that the systems and software development jobs that he once saw Americans working at are now done in India for American company bosses. He’s no longer part of the middle class.

[Myrddin]

The former HP network analyst allowed his job skills to rot. The field of computer science is a fast moving train. You have to continually update your skill set to keep a job. People who specialize in a narrow set of skills will eventually find their jobs eliminated by new technologies. The work outsourced to India is generally fully specified grunt work (coding). The architecture, design and modeling of business processes is still happening here. Managing the outsourced vendors, meeting deadlines and maintaining satisfactory quality are continuing problems.