[CLUE-Talk] Job web sites to visit

[Dusty Campbell]

At 08:32 AM 12/6/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>On 12-06 06:55, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> > On Friday 06 December 2002 06:11 am, Mike Miller wrote:
> > > What India WON'T take away is local support. Companies NEED fingers to
> > > push reset buttons, hot swap drives, lay cable, etc.
> >
> > Actually, they will:
> >
> > + http://www.serverworldmagazine.com/monthly/2002/11/roadmap.shtml
> >
> > > No one OWES you ANYTHING. They don't owe you an IT position, they don't
> > > OWE you a middle-class income. The reason why America is the richest
> > > nation on the planet, with the largest military, and the largest number
> > > of millionaires and the greatest amount of R&D is because it's peopled
> > > by a driven population. It's easy to point fingers at out warts (Enron,
> > > Dot Com bust) and cry foul, but that's not really productive.
> >
> > Amen, Mike! I agree with your no-entitlement perspective.  I think in 
> general
> > Americans _expect_ to have a good job simply because they survived college.
> >
> > IMHO, the only way you'll keep your job (technical or not) is if you 
> provide a
> > real benefit to your company.  This benefit may be in terms of profit,
> > political or other.  And, as they said on the Sopranos last week:
> >
> > "You're only as good as your last envelope."
>
>Ack. I didn't intend to imply that I think I'm entitled to anything - I
>certainly don't think so, and I wouldn't want to work in that environment. I
>was just making some observations about what looks like the end of "IT"
>(including what I do - programming) as we know it...and musing on what to do
>for a plan B if that does indeed turn out to be the case.

Let's not forget about becoming an entrepreneur.  You don't have to work 
for someone else.
--Dusty