It's the economy. When it picks up, so will the jobs. ""saktown"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I don't know if this is going to make you feel better or not (probably not), > but anyways it is not strictly true that there are all these networks that > need to be maintained. A lot of people have wondered how the industry can > be laying all these people off if there are a constant number of complex > networks to maintain. > > The fallacy in that logic is that in reality the number of networks, and > their complexity, has indeed gone down in absolute terms. While the > enterprise space still continues to maintain lukewarm demand, the > telco/provider segment is nothing less than a disaster of epic proportions. > I would contend that for every new box requisitioned by an enterprise, > another 2 or 3 have been decommissioned by a dying provider. Check out the > latest auction of Cisco gear from Excite@Home as a poignant example. > Furthermore, much of the growth in the enterprise space requires very little > skill to set up (i.e. install a single router to connect to an ISP), whereas > provider networks tend to be tremendously complicated, therefore requiring > great expertise to maintain, but of course now there is no more provider > network to maintain. Hence, you have lots of highly skilled network dudes > who got laid off from providers who are now competing for jobs running > networks for enterprises. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Green" > > To: > > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:16 AM > > Subject: what is wrong with the job market ? [7:35611] > > > > > > > seems all jobs have just vanished. well then who runs > > > the networks and equipment ? it's real bad out there > > > in the job market. > > > any web sites to put the resume ? seems dice, monster, > > > headhunter are not producing any results. > > > > > > how long is this goind to last ? > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > > > http://sports.yahoo.com
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