Study: Not all entry-level IT work headed offshore

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forget business skills, I would learn IT: This goes against what everyone is predicting, but if I was in High School, I would saturate my time with Information Technology interests NOW! Jobs are coming back and are not going away from here forward.

I would pick two or three facets that interest you and then start learning them on your own, because the schools suck and dont have the right people, from my experinece, to get you the skills we see in our field. I work in it so I know.

Follow your passion and run with it...and avoid business training except as necessary and I will tell you why. IT is currently replacing more and more of the business world in terms of what it can do, how things are forcast, and how decisions are made. Computers are and will handle more of those tasks. Its going to take allot of computer people to design and engineer that stuff, not to mention maitain it and innovate around it, despite the move of some of that offshore to grunts in China and India. People in China, from what Ive read, dont have the innovation level Americans have in IT, despite the 800,000 engineers they are predicted to crank out. Those "monocultures" never will.

The fact is, as Ive read recently, that the US now is the number one offshoring spot for the world! Meaning, more foreign companies buy services from us than we from them, and will in the future, and especially new and innovative technology FROM us and our engineers than the opposite! Funny huh?

So, I think we will see lots of IT and engineering work move over seas and offshored, but still lots of work coming in for our engineers as well. Most of this will require higher skills with the innovation trend that Americans provide. And because there is and will be a shortage coming as fewer kids apply to thsoe fields, the more money for you when salaries go up.

So go into technology....there will be money to be made.

The fact is, you HAVE to start at the bottom and work your way up, and better to start young. By the time you hit your thirties, you will have the top level technology knowledge to manage or run just about any IT company or industry based on that knowledge and experience. All the "business people" who start off in business and THEN have to backtrack and learn technology will be WAY behind...and in the technology world thats coming, you dont want to be in that group...trust me!; Posted by: wildranger Posted on: 07/15/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use