Amen!
I have software engineering AND an electrical engineering degree. I tell folks if their job can be done at a keyboard it can be done by the lowest bidder anywhere in the world.
That is one of the reasons I do post sales support. Once the gear is on the ground, you are servicing it in that data center. It may not be sexy, and I have to be on-call about once a month. But it's hard to outsource physically touching the gear.
I'm Mr Goodwrench for computers
I hold most if not all the old Sun Microsystems certifications. I'm nearly 50 and going to school at night to get my CCNA. Don't want all my eggs in one basket. My employer pays my tuition and books as long as I get a B or better, and they can't take that from me if my job goes away.
At some point, I need to update my Sun certs to Oracle Solaris 11. But right now, I'm still good with my Solaris 10, Clustering, Java and Solaris Networking certs.
Originally Posted By: Win
I have dead end jobs and people with college degrees applying for them.
The economy is trashed. Instead of being fixed, the people in charge are driving it farther and deeper into the spin. Soon the spin will be a death spiral.
Learn a trade. That can't be outsourced. IT sounds like it can be easily outsourced. And if it can be, it will be.
I have software engineering AND an electrical engineering degree. I tell folks if their job can be done at a keyboard it can be done by the lowest bidder anywhere in the world.
That is one of the reasons I do post sales support. Once the gear is on the ground, you are servicing it in that data center. It may not be sexy, and I have to be on-call about once a month. But it's hard to outsource physically touching the gear.
I'm Mr Goodwrench for computers
I hold most if not all the old Sun Microsystems certifications. I'm nearly 50 and going to school at night to get my CCNA. Don't want all my eggs in one basket. My employer pays my tuition and books as long as I get a B or better, and they can't take that from me if my job goes away.
At some point, I need to update my Sun certs to Oracle Solaris 11. But right now, I'm still good with my Solaris 10, Clustering, Java and Solaris Networking certs.
Originally Posted By: Win
I have dead end jobs and people with college degrees applying for them.
The economy is trashed. Instead of being fixed, the people in charge are driving it farther and deeper into the spin. Soon the spin will be a death spiral.
Learn a trade. That can't be outsourced. IT sounds like it can be easily outsourced. And if it can be, it will be.
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