This poll scared the shit out of me making me think Mother's day was today or very recently and I'd forgotten. Screw you
Uuhhh? As far as I know in the US it was yesterday.
Which shows that you don't realize that mothers day is celebrated on different dates in different countries. (and screw any ideas that
I'm not sure why a simulator would ever want to bash people that hard. You'd think it'd be almost more jarring to have the simulation just stop completely -- lights go on, screen dark.
Sometimes the bashing part IS the reason for the simulation HUET Train to Survive (although in this case there is no actually bashing
Same as with real property (house, boat, business office complex, etc.). A trust account, a trustee, and the keys in escrow (envelope in a box at the bank or the lawyers office).
But
But it's with a 3-D printer! That makes it novel and non-obvious, right?
Wait until I incorporate a drone in the 3D printing process
So yea, the smart money is on not doing personal projects on company time.
The smarter money is on doing company projects on company time!
Except your situation is different. In this case this kid is an employee
Indian and Chinese tech workers are often excellent technically, but run into road blocks trying to talk to Americans over the phone, because their accents are sometimes horrendous.
Aside from the accents there are also other cultural issues at play*. Last week I had an Indian guy leave both an email and a voice mail saying "I've got great news for you." And didn't tell me what the effin "great news" actually was. I had to call him back in order to find out what he was actually talking about. And when I did get on to him he then had to lead me along this extremely verbose description of events leading up to why he called me (a series of events that I was well aware of as it had been developing over the last 2 weeks and I had been involved in them.)
In his case I felt he was suffering from a major dose of 3rd world bureaucratic empire building, and couldn't come straight to the point even if it he had to do it to save his own life.
* EG The classic Asian personality of not being able to say "no" to something.
Perhaps for IT monkeys. However, the security engineers (level 3 or 4) I hire in the DC area are in the $150-200K range.
How does that compare to non-clearance people of the same level? DC is not exactly a cheap place to live, so I expect salaries to be higher there.
If you have polygraphs....15-20%.
Sigh, when is the belief in magical things going to end?
Automating a datacenter is trivial. 19-inch standard racks made to hold boxes in multiples of "U" height. All you need is standard power and data bus points to avoid having to do custom wiring. Robots can easily slot in units or racks. Just back up an automated truck to the loading dock 2 or 3 times a week to deliver automatically-built new units and haul off the dead/obsolete ones to be disposed of.
A data center is a bastion of clean, easily accessed, regular layout, and computers are good at handling consistent and repeating patterns.
On the other hand any manufacturing industry location is the complete opposite - non-regular layout, abundant dirt and grime and all manner of inconstancies built on layer and layer of previous versions. If you wanted your typical manufacturing plant to be able to be serviced by a remote unit, you would have to tear it down and build it back up from scratch. And that is not economically feasible - unless you simply just scrap manufacturing in the US and build shiny those new plants from scratch in the $CheapLocationDeJour (did anyone say Africa????)
One word: Telepresence. Even surgery is being performed remotely nowadays.
While that probably is inevitable, it isn't going to make inroads into the tech field until you can have a remote unit that is as supple, dextrous and reliable as a person at a price point that makes it cheaper than having local guy (plus who services the remote units?) - that would require an Asimov level of technology.
The surgery works because it is a highly specialized, high cost environment that is extremely regulated and controlled - you currently don't just wheel any old patient into a telepresence surgery. Getting a single machine to change the radiator hose on your car (as an opposite extreme example), and then notice that your timing belt is looking iffy is a whole different ball game.
ANY USG security clearance, not just a high one.
Note that a clearance doesn't imply a high paying job either. Recently I have seen ads for IT monkeys with a security clearance to go around various locations and perform some sort installation/maintenance/upgrade. The quoted rate was about $18/hr. And that surprised me as I thought a clearance would have garnered more of a premium. But I suppose an IT monkey is an IT monkey no matter who the customer is.
I agree. If you aren't your own boss, then you are vulnerable to offshoring.
Even if you are your own boss, if you work in a sector that is susceptible to offshoring,(and you don't offshore yourself), your potential pool of income will be diminishing in a race to the bottom.
Dice - you could save $ by offshoring timothy's job....
Given the quality of "editing" I thought it had already been done years ago.
From what I have observed among my friends and acquaintances, it is that nothing in the tech industry is safe from being offshored in our globalized world.
Any job that requires a physical presence can't be off-shored. And many tech jobs do require a physical presence.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
