Comment WE have done nothing to protect ourselves. (Score 1) 369
The problem is we have not mobilized in response to offshoring. There is no unity between IT/Computer workers.
There are no strong unions, no poltical structure to protect our jobs--which are/used to be high paid. So we're going to be taken advantage of.
I do not think it completely a matter of "keeping up with the times" any more. I think it is more of a matter of politics now--and we have done nothing poltically to protect ourselves.
There are other industries have stronger unions and political constructs which protect the job security of their workers.
For example: Law.
They have begun offshoring Paperwork (contracts etc.)
Already we have far too many Lawyers, however, it keeps getting worse.
At my University's law school (which is considered top notch around this city) there are VERY FEW graduated Juris Doctors who have been able to find law INTERNSHIPS.
Lawyers are political by nature, do you think these JDs are going to allow all this work to be moved perminately to India? NO. They have already went to political means to stop this practice through the BAR ASSOCIATION.
Now I am not a laywer, and nor to I claim to know everything there is to know about this situation regarding to law, but I do have close friends who are lawyers and law professors.
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I graduated in May of '04. I have a BA degree in Multimedia, I am three credits away from an additional BS degree in computer science, I have a 4.0 GPA in my major, I have a 3.1 over all. I have won two national awards for Macromedia Flash web design.
With the exception of a week of temporary employment, I have been unemployed since graduation, and with the exception of graduate classes (which I am taking to keep the student loan collectors off my back until I can manage to get a job) and whatever networking groups I can find, I have been practically rotting away in parents house.
I have been trying to find a group in the Pittsburgh area to join in response to the offshoring crisis, but I can't seem to find one.
This is a significant problem.
All I have found is suggestions such as:
"professionals should look for a newer career model, based on a more structured training and career development, in response to the increasing trend of offshore outsourcing."
In fact, George W. Bush suggested something similar to this during the debates.
I just paid 60,000 dollars for an education and I need a career change--and I haven't even started my career yet!!!!
-Tony
There are no strong unions, no poltical structure to protect our jobs--which are/used to be high paid. So we're going to be taken advantage of.
I do not think it completely a matter of "keeping up with the times" any more. I think it is more of a matter of politics now--and we have done nothing poltically to protect ourselves.
There are other industries have stronger unions and political constructs which protect the job security of their workers.
For example: Law.
They have begun offshoring Paperwork (contracts etc.)
Already we have far too many Lawyers, however, it keeps getting worse.
At my University's law school (which is considered top notch around this city) there are VERY FEW graduated Juris Doctors who have been able to find law INTERNSHIPS.
Lawyers are political by nature, do you think these JDs are going to allow all this work to be moved perminately to India? NO. They have already went to political means to stop this practice through the BAR ASSOCIATION.
Now I am not a laywer, and nor to I claim to know everything there is to know about this situation regarding to law, but I do have close friends who are lawyers and law professors.
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I graduated in May of '04. I have a BA degree in Multimedia, I am three credits away from an additional BS degree in computer science, I have a 4.0 GPA in my major, I have a 3.1 over all. I have won two national awards for Macromedia Flash web design.
With the exception of a week of temporary employment, I have been unemployed since graduation, and with the exception of graduate classes (which I am taking to keep the student loan collectors off my back until I can manage to get a job) and whatever networking groups I can find, I have been practically rotting away in parents house.
I have been trying to find a group in the Pittsburgh area to join in response to the offshoring crisis, but I can't seem to find one.
This is a significant problem.
All I have found is suggestions such as:
"professionals should look for a newer career model, based on a more structured training and career development, in response to the increasing trend of offshore outsourcing."
In fact, George W. Bush suggested something similar to this during the debates.
I just paid 60,000 dollars for an education and I need a career change--and I haven't even started my career yet!!!!
-Tony
