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Believe the Occupational Outlook Handbook?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-27 14:20

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/2120238

I read something like this about the industry, and it seems to just leave me more confused. Differing views of "the industry is dead" or "no it isn't as long as you're good". Pointy-haired bosses and management shitting all over technical staff.

What do you think, /prog/? Is the CompSci field dead, or is it still good to go into? How "good" do you have to be, exactly? What fields are actually still "safe" from outsourcing, which might still be fun (or at least easy)?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-29 6:25

I'm currently going to college and majoring in CS. I work for a small startup company part time. Our company sells software / gives support to companies who in turn sell the product to a customer. Basically we don't ship our stuff to Best Buy etc to be sold off the shelf. After being there a few months I have come to the conclusion that 95% of the people who have IT type jobs don't know shit. This includes people who host our servers, the people who run the tech shops we sell to, our competitors, and most of the people at my company. If you even have the slightest bit of competency you will have no problem finding a job as a programmer, sys admin, etc.

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