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>As for your 'geer brothers, see if they would have their jobs without
>their education. That would be their "designation", as it were.
If the education is of a certain level, graduates can qualify for membership of certain peer review groups/ societies.
>Doesn't anyone find it weird that it's IT jobs that get moved, and not
>engineering/doctor/accounting jobs (or, at least to a lesser degree)?
No. The cost and speed of moving a finished product to the other side of the world are much lower in the case of IT as in other cases. Not to mention that for certain jobs presence close to the market is simply a requirement (how is a doctor on the other side of the world going to fix your broken leg?).
>Perhaps companies don't know how valuable IT people are, think that
>we're totally interchangable (which we're not) and don't have a good
>handle on what quality and kinds of work a specific person can
>provide?
IT people do a very bad job at organizing themselves and having their societies represented in formal processes and requirements.
For example (I don't know if it really works this way in the USD, but it does in some other countries): if I want a job at a refinery as Chemical Engineer in the US I need to be accredited by the American Society of Chemical Engineers. And the reason is that that Society has made sure that legislation requires all risk-analysis work to be done by an accredited member. Same thing for doctors, the law requires certain qualifications from peer review groups/societies before you can practice as a doctor.
Jochem
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