Agreed! I would say there is only a handfull of us that have had it up to here with the lack of training budget and just built our own lab a the house. I dare say there are fewer of us that actually try to learn this stuff after work as well.
Les --- Carroll Kong wrote: > At 09:51 PM 2/18/02 -0500, Kevin St.Amour wrote: > >Just a thought. > > Just as there is a glut of Fiber, I believe > the market created a > >glut of Tech works. I remember going to a > Technical School, and before > >slapping down 15k for a networking Degree in 1998 > (BTW, the school went > >under a year ago http://clcx.com ) I heard numbers > like "This industry > >will be behind 500k Tech workers due to lack of > Skill by 2004...Get the > >skills now.... (paraphrasing)" > > > >-Kevin > > Do not know about you, but on average, most of the > guys I see in the > industry are woefully inept and incompetent. I am > shocked they get paid > anything even close to the amount they do. If one > thing is for certain, we > definitely need BETTER guys out there. However, it > seems like, most > companies do not realize what good people are. Such > a disparity only helps > in the downturn. > > What is sad is, instead of appreciating technical > ability and learning > capacity, most companies are doing a fire sale and > axing what few good > people they have. While some of the incompetent > upper management survive > due to nepotism and what not. > > So, while I agree a downturn is occurring, I do NOT > agree that there is an > "oversupply" of qualified individuals. I would say > 60-80% of the "IT" > people I meet are inadequate. > > -Carroll Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== Leslie McIntosh Network Engineer CCNA, CNE, CNS, A+, Network+ Certified [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=35828&t=35611 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
