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- breckinshire, on 10/21/2008, -8/+44I don't work in high tech... I use a Mac!
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -1/+17The Tech industry is NOT a bunch of advertising sales execs. Technology can make your business run smoother, more efficient and you can become more productive. Yahoo, Google are just advertising firms, NOT the Tech Industry. The Tech Industry are the guys who sweat it out above the hot drop ceilings and cold server rooms and along the poles in bad weather and hours away from home in windowless block houses and underground tunnels and up late hours to keep things running smooth behind the scenes. THOSE are the REAL Techs who deserve the million dollar payouts!
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+11Tech should be scared of the lack of math and science in our schools.
- brandita, on 10/22/2008, -0/+10I have some real estate in the Silicon Valley if anyone is interested.
- wyndl, on 10/22/2008, -0/+10seriously, why worry? if you are smart, then the world is your oyster; and please note, i said "world" not "America".
If McCain/Palin get elected, then you should be starting to look into working abroad anyway, because the intellectuals in this once great nation are going to be persecuted by Miss Book-Burner and the Church on the Rock funky bunch. - bxblox, on 10/22/2008, -0/+9Every other year news like this will come out and then the amount of people enrolled in CS/Eng programs will drop because everyone says the industry is going to hell. Next you'll see the industry complaining that there is a huge shortage of qualified talent and that the demand is high and people will start enrolling again. Some people will be good at it and others will have no idea what they are doing. You will meet plenty of people like this and you will graduate with some of them wondering how they ever made it that far. The answer is freeloading. This cycle will never end. If you want to go into tech, just go into tech...
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+8Look on the bright side. You're not a finance major
- gaqua, on 10/22/2008, -0/+7Hahahaa - DO NOT WORK IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY.
Seriously, unless you live, eat, and breathe games, unless you are ready to replace all aspects of a social life with a group of guys working 60-70 hour weeks, unless you're ready to sleep under your desk for 5-6 hours before you get back to work, unless you're absolutely sure that you want to be the guy who wins the "hottest desktop background for dual LCD monitors" contest, don't work in the gaming industry. The pay isn't great, the hours are long, the conditions are brutal, and your recognition is almost nil.
I have friends who do it, and they are a very special type of people. You really, really, really have to live it. It's your whole life, to be a game coder. - Norumeni, on 10/22/2008, -2/+9Buried as sensationalist propaganda.
- mahadiga, on 10/22/2008, -3/+10I work in high tech...I use Linux.
- SideShowMel0329, on 10/22/2008, -0/+6I for one don't think the tech industry is doomed. It's true that the sector, just like many other sectors, are going to see declining growth, but that doesn't mean that spending on technology will take a nosedive. Technology is a necessity in today's world, and the big name tech companies are starting to become defensive stocks IMO (like food, consumer goods, etc.) Companies like Intel, Microsoft, Google have enough cash flow to keep their businesses profiting for quite a while
- rmscomm, on 10/22/2008, -0/+6Are you people crazy? Lets outsource all the jobs except the executive postions. That will really help out economy boom (Old White Guy, circa. Begining of time-now) Go U.S.A! Do yourselves a favor outsource a C.E.O. For what we pay for 1 American C.E.O. we could get 20 foreign Phd's to do just as bad and we don't have to pay a golden parachute.
- Anth0n, on 10/22/2008, -2/+8I am also a computer engineering major, and graduating in 2011. But unlike you I don't have a near 4.0 gpa, probably because I spend too much time on all the internets. So yes I'm worried too.
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+6I don't know why you are being dugg down. I've just gotten back from a few business trips abroad and the general consensus is that McCain/Palin are ignorant, racist, fundy, douche bags.
We've lost a LOT of respect on the world stage, how about electing someone to give us some clout again? - inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+6I'm booked for the next six months as a consultant and I have probably another six months of projects lined up, so I'm not terribly worried. Tech trimmed down SIGNIFICANTLY back after the .com crash, so you won't see the major downsizing that you saw around 2000.
You may want to bone up on your business skills, ITIL, Scrum, and general training skills (you'll be doing a LOT of knowledge transfer). Keep in mind, the media always picks on the IT field because they have NO idea what it is. They don't know the difference between a Net Admin and a Sys Admin and they still don't know the difference between a hacker and a cracker. - DigitalisAkujin, on 10/22/2008, -0/+5LOL. As if Yahoo is representative of the entire tech market.
The tech sector is recession proof and constantly fed money from other industries that rely on it. - bang, on 10/22/2008, -1/+6The tech industry has always gone through waves of success. This is just a down cycle ( a big one ). Having said that, I am a recent grad in computer science that received a job right out of college as an App Dev. The company I worked for was forced to lay off the employees that had the lowest utilization numbers. Since all the newbs were still in training, we had to go. However, I am still receiving job offers daily...bad thing is, is that I need to live near a larger city.
To sum up, you'll be fine. Just do some research about the company before you commit... Looking at stock performance is a good idea. - pszcz1, on 10/22/2008, -0/+5So there's a credit crunch, falling economy, higher prices. Doom for many. But its amazing what you can do with a laptop and open source software. Tech will be the savior in this mess.
- ansatsu29, on 10/22/2008, -0/+4I think the tech industry is more resilient than the banking and finance industry...The tech industry can ride any changing economic tides...
- ExRe, on 10/22/2008, -0/+4Oh please. If you are truly any good at what you do you will never have a problem finding a job.
Stop worrying about it and do something. Being a scared little kid will only make you lose the opportunities you have. - GawtMilk, on 10/22/2008, -0/+4我是美國人 . 我可以說普通話 , 但是我沒有工作
你的建議太不好 :( - SideShowMel0329, on 10/22/2008, -3/+7You have absolutely no need to worry. As an engineer, you'll be able to find a job very easily, though it might not be directly related to your field. Employers like engineers because they know they're smart. Getting an engineering degree is no easy task, and if you can do it, you can do most jobs out there.
- Kral, on 10/22/2008, -0/+4Learn Chinese.
- apostledeets, on 10/22/2008, -0/+4So that would be why engineering degree holders have the highest post graduation starting salaries for the last few years running.
The only thing that is worth as much as Walmart toilet paper is your opinion. - llamaspit, on 10/22/2008, -0/+4Don't worry. I never even finished my degree and have been busy since 1991 in this field. I freelance now, and while people do outsource a lot (I do primarily web/data work), they many times come back. I've made a good amount of money and am regularly bidding jobs that were originally outsourced and have returned to the US for various reasons.
- jinjin, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3I've always wondered wtf does it even mean to get "certified" in Java?
- bxblox, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3books rot your brain. I will advocate no such thing.
- ariGme, on 10/22/2008, -2/+5I wouldn't worry about it too much, media always focuses on the bad
(I'm sales at a web dev and we are booking February project start dates so it's not affecting custom coding projects or web work in our area)
Have a buddy that configures and installs mainframes and he is staying busy, or is that low-tech now? - ConfirmedCynic, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3Or, people could just choose a line of work that isn't so cutthroat, offers reasonable hours and better job stability.
- Taintsmasher, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3If this somehow translates to cheaper video cards, I'm all for it.
If it translates to ***** search engine results, I'm less for it.
Just kidding, it sucks that people are losing jobs......but hey, at least there will be some apartments opening up in San Francisco!
jeez, sorry, I just woke up, I have no filter. - DustyinBFE, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3IT was my field of expertise since High School. Was suppose to go straight into it in 2001 ... but was to afraid to with the field already starting to be outsourced back then. I have no interest in entering this field any longer, and went to become an exec in the hospitality industry ... nowhere near where I thought I'd end up ... and now I watch this industry slowly die as people stop traveling .... gotta love how things work!!
- BTime, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3This post buried by IT workers from India. Don't expose their secrets bro!
- nikkon, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3Tell that to the aerospace engineers that lost their careers in the late 80's.
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3gagua is dead on. Unless you want to do sales, don't go into gaming. It's long sh*tty hours and LOOONNNGGG stretches when you will never be able to leave due to deadlines.
- skeeterbug84, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3Yeah advertising is a huge flaw in Google's primary income source.
/boggle - noumuon, on 10/22/2008, -1/+4"The only thing that is worth as much as Walmart toilet paper is your opinion."
and a liberal arts degree... -_- seriously, why would anyone bother changing their degree from computer engineering. get that degree, find what you can for a job, and work on your masters. a masters in ANY applied mathematics field is a sure shot for having your resume move up in the pile anywhere. - Nietz1950, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2To be honest, I think the government has a larger role in creating tech jobs so we can encourage people to enter engineering, math, and science. This is what we did after WW2, and we created the most educated workforce on the planet. The Government may have guaranteed the jobs and been the largest entry-level employer, but eventually these workers built up experience and created the industries of the future.
I graduated in the last recession and saw CS/MIS majors such as myself with certifications in Java and MCSDs looking resorting to retail and construction jobs. Just seems like such a waste. - diggopolous, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Why would they be? Tech would just use their lobbyists to push Congress for more immmigrant tech visas to lower their payroll based on the "lack of math and science" and tech graduates. Then
when potential students see that they would be undercut by their own government, they steer clear away from math/science/tech causing an even greater lack of students in this area. And the cycle goes on and on and on. - inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2In my experience, 'survival of the fittest' means 'those who kiss the most ass.'
- dougbarrett, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3I'm not too worried about it. It's survival of the fittest, and worrying about it won't help anyone.
- diggopolous, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Wrong. I'm suprised you say this if you had witnessed the last tech bubble burst. Especially during a recession, tech is viewed more as a "cost" center rather than a "profit" center wrongly or rightly by those
MBA's in Mahogany Row. - DriversPlaza, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2yeah and we hav the economic dropdown .. more @ http://www.techb.net/
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3WTF? What kind of moronic FUD is this?
- Nietz1950, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2I was Java2 Programmer certified - it wasn't as complete as the Microsoft certifications, but I figured Java was a good hedge in case DotNet crashed. It was a single test (although I believe there was an architect certification as well) that made sure you understood the various parts of the framework.
Of course, I had developed several applications (and sold them online) in Java, but the certification forced you to learn the parts of the framework you may not regularly use in actual development. The test has changed since then and I understand much of the UI stuff has simply been thrown out.
Some people hate certifications. It didn't help me in finding a job, but I needed to make sure I wasn't too focused on the dark corners of my self-taught development and missing some of the bigger picture. - Olfster, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3After pondering your idea for a few minutes I strangely seem to concur.
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Worse, many will exit or outsource the industry due to the high taxes that will soon be imposed on them.
- zhenkel, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2same situation, 4.0, computer science, transfered as a sophomore... not worried though. I love my major and I'm sure it'll work out one way or another.
- Olfster, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3BA in computer engineering? Really? Am I missing something here or are you just being facetious. I don't mean to offend or be funny and am probably showing my ignorance in some way, but is that a real degree? Not the computer engineering or the BA but the two combined?
- mrmiggidude, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3lulz. giving bad advice to a complete stranger? why would anyone do that..
- MindTrigger, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Hide your head in the sand, it will all go away.
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