On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:02:59AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What a terrible thing that there are young people, eager to work, with > great qualifications who have "punched all the right buttons", yet can't > even get an interview! > > Don't take it personally, Sergey. I know it feels like it is personal, but > it's not. The world economy is in really bad shape. You've proven that > you'll work hard and do what has to be done. That effort shows great > initiative and drive. If I had a job to offer here, I'd get in touch with > you. But I'm sure you've heard the refrain: no money, no money, no money. > Not for hardware or personnel. > > Hang in there. It's bound to turn around sometime in our lifetimes...
Not really - at least not in the US. Over 506000 (yep, half a million), IT jobs "disappeared" from the US over the last two years. A great many of them turned up in India and China where the cost of an equivalent engineer has been pegged at 1/5 and 1/10 the cost of a US engineer respectively. Companies like Cisco, Nortel, and 3Com - just to name three telecomm players, all lay-ed off US engineers at the same time they were hiring and training new engineers to do exactly the same jobs in these other countries. All of the large technology companies are doing the same thing. Why? Reduced software development costs. Yes, the US economy will recover (eventually) but we do need to be aware that the landscape for technology jobs here in the US has changed forever and will be much smaller and lower paid than it has in the past. If you want examples, you can look at this web site: (I didn't name it, sorry): its called www.fsckthatjob.com. Replace fsck with what you think it probably is. Sorry for the less than optimistic report but I've seen the numbers and I've seen the high level management plans and they don't include doing software here in the US. Yes It will still exist, but with a much larger pool of job seekers competing for a much smaller number of jobs. > (P.S. Anyone that's been in this business for any length of time at all > has had to "work for food" at one time or another. You're just paying your > dues early.) > > Rebecca R. King > Lead System Administrator > Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality > State of Mississippi > > > > > > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ome.net> cc: > > Sent by: Subject: Re: RHCE looking for a job > > redhat-list-admin > > @redhat.com > > > > > > 03/20/2003 01:21 > > PM > > Please respond to > > redhat-list > > > > > > > > > > it's very sorry to know.. but the reason behind it is that GNU/Linux > requires > knowledge as its primary requisite, not certification.. > > ritesh > Quoting Sergey Motorny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am a 22-year-old RHCE with Bachelor's in Business Administration and > > about to complete Master's in Computer Information Systems. I am fluent > > in English/Russian, have a year of IT experience, and also hold Network+ > > and A+ certifications. I have been looking for a Linux job for a few > > months, but have not received a single job interview invitation. Any > > suggestions from the Linux community itself? I will soon be ready to > > work for food. :0) > > > > Looking forward to your replies, > > Sergey > > http://www.sergey.us > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > Ritesh R. Sarraf > "To learn, you've got to get your hands dirty." > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
