[CLUE-Talk] Interesting Article

[Matt Clauson]

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 00:16, Alastair Mayer wrote:
> Check out this article
> http://www.talbotchamber.org/announcements/job_boom.pdf from Business
> 2.0 (the HTML version requires a subscription).   If you can hang on
> a couple of years, there's going to be a demand in IT "that will make
> it feel like 1999 all over", because of increased demand coupled with
> the baby boomers retiring.

And in the mean time, our skills and resumes get rusty, because we've 
all had to be sacking groceries at Safeway to make ends meet.  Right.

I guess I probably shouldn't be complaining too much -- I've actually 
managed, through sheer dumb luck probably, to stay employed throughout 
the entire thing -- yes, there were a couple of months of downtime 
there, but I was able to pick up other contracts.

I was speaking with one of the CO technicians at a Qwest CO in Boulder 
yesterday, and I pointed out something to him:  "In fields like ours, 
[that being the heavy IT support fields like plant engineers, systems 
administrators, and the like] there will always be a demand.  Someone 
has to keep things running, and produce the product, and provide for 
expansion.  It's the R&D folks, like the programmers, design engineers, 
and such, that I'm worried about."

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