Re: [Nolug] Linux - The New 'Hot' Job Skill

From: Friedrich Gurtler <fgurtler_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:38:23 -0500
Message-ID: <e9c2c3740909151938n3c35114dr313e1c276d7976a4@mail.gmail.com>

Depends, do you consider utilities the real world? =P

In that quasi-governmental regulated pseudo-world they do.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Jonathan Roberts <gremln007@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>wrote:
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>> The cost of hiring an IT worker in India for U.S.-based projects is
>> rapidly approaching that of a U.S. IT worker.
>>
>> So the only “qualification” on the good news is this: you are competing
>> against a bigger pool of people. Which means you actually have to
>> provide some value. Bad news if you've been coasting towards the day
>> when you can collect your pension.
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>> Mark.
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> Do you really see the costs equaling out? I am surprised that this is the
> case but I'm not familiar with Indian outsourcing and don't want to be.. On
> a related note, do pensions still exist in the real world?!
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