Job outsourcing

How does it feel knowing that your job can be performed at a quarter of the price by third world Indian programmers. Do you go to bed at night fearing the day when you're out of work. Any regrets for not picking a profession with prestige like Lawyer or Doctor (i.e., two jobs that can't be outsourced). What's your contingency plan for the day when mainland China opens up. Read this article about why programming is a bad profession:
http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/03/why_a_career_in.html

>>19
Nope, I'm experienced in my particular field. I work closely with the systems analyst and the users to study the system I need to achieve. The vast majority of my time is in analysis and design (for a given system where the problems are understood). After this, the schedule we work out is very accurate; actually fleshing out the code takes my team very little time. The biggest time sink after writing code is doing the comprehensive system checks. We charge more money and time for any system scope changes that occur after the system design phase and the clients know this up front so there is complete understanding about this.