About the Systems engineering (Score 1)

Hi! I am a systems engineer from Argentina. I am a Java/J2EE SemiSenior-Senior programmer and I am finishing my Systems Engineering Career. Currently I have my own pretty small software factory meanwhile I work in a huge software company. I've been aware of this problem since a few years ago. I think that the answer to your post is that there are too many offers for Senior Engineerings. At this time, there are tons of opportunities for working. In my case, I would like to work for Sourceforge because it is Sourceforge, but I could not because I live in Argentina. Here in Argentina there is the same problem in hiring software engineers. Why is that' I think that many factors contribute to this. First of all, the software industry is growing up in huge steps, that provides more and more job opportunities and engineers are highly requested. Second in list as software industry grows people tend to study IT-related careers because it's payful. Here in Argentina, in many non-public universities there is a wrong approach to that problem that consists in force pupils finish their career as soon as posible, in some cases universities give the career title as a gift. This doesn't contribute with the industry because engineers don't get mature and because it pulls down the quality degree of argentinian software professionals. In summary, in my opinion the problem is that the industry growth has fulfilled the available professionals. By professional I mean those who really are systems engineers, not them who do a 2-year course in programming. Even if at first glance we could see no difference, there is a difference and is huge between university systems engineering and non-university programmers. When a really difficult problem araises there difference is mandatory in almost all cases. Finally, may be I could be not 100% accurate in my opinion, but it's based on my experience in the marketplace. Thank you very much for reading my reply.