Where do you guys live? The job market is booming in DC. It is very easy to find a CF job here. Not only that, many CF developers make DotNet salary.
I am not sure if you should worry about cheap foreign labor. The cheap labor is definitely attractive. I actually hired them on a bunch of projects before, and now I rather pay extra for developers here. Off-shore developers are actually coders and not developers. Their code is extremely messy. They don't account for all the scenerios. Things don't tie together. Pages are all over the place. They constantly reinvent the wheel. After using the applications for a while, all applications started to fall apart. Now it would take me a lot of time to figure out what's going on and try to fix it. Communication was also difficult. You can tell them things over and over again, but they will always do the way they want to do it. They don't want to collaborate with other teams. They always do their own things. So I think eventually all the companies will crawl back to us. Unless the foreign coders become the real developers, but that also means their salary will increase. So I think we will be safe. Johnny >Yeah, I've been there. I got laid from a 30 person (6 developer) >company off at the end of August; I was a Sr. CF Programmer, lead UI >guy, backup to the sysadmin and on alternating thursdays I played >Banjo in the band. Turns out they were sold but hadn't made the news >public, they were trying to make the balance sheet look as good as >possible so they laid off some people. We did lots of high-volume CF >stuff. It pissed me off; after 10 years in the industry, this was the >first time I was the one being laid off. > >Fortunately, I'm realistic enough to be able to look at myself and ask >realistic questions. Such as, "Would I hire a 45 year old me?" (I'm >38 now). So, a couple of years ago I went back to work on an M.Ed. so >that I could teach high school English. That's what I did to turn a >depressing revelation (the answer to the question I asked myself) into >a real plan that will take me for the next 30 years of this journey >called "life". > >The downside is, I was unemployed for over 4 months. I only recently >landed a job with a small company rewriting a critical internal app, >which should be an 8 or 9 month project...at the end of the project, >I'll be ready to student teach, and then I can segue into a new (and >hopefully final, I can't see them offshoring teachers, and it's one of >those few careers where age and experience is an asset) career. > >Anyway, yes, the state of the tech industry is depressing. I'm a tech >guy, I love technology, I love building web sites. Fortunately, I >also like planning ahead. There will always be offshoring, and soon >enough, jobs will be being offshored from India to the next tech-savvy >but cheap labor force. There will always be new buzzwords that the IT >and development managers of the world will be chasing, believing them >to be the next big thing. Me? I guess I've grown weary of it all. > >Good on ya', mate, for getting a new gig. They are definitely fewer >and farther between. > >Pete ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2202 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/11 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:11 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
