By the way, it appears that some of our colleagues are using their computer skills to move into biotech. This makes sense if you have some background in biology or are willing to go back to school (or can soak up very technical information like Howard can! ;-)
The human body is way more complicated than even the most convoluted computer network. But I think the fact that we have been able to learn so much esoteric networking material means that we could learn biotech too, if so inclined. See this article from today's San Jose Mercury News about IT people trying to break into biotech. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4756894.htm Priscilla Marc Thach Xuan Ky wrote: > > nrf wrote: > > > > I would just add that many times (actually, more often than > not, predictions > > actually turn out to be correct). > > We could trade predictions forever :-) What about the bloke who > said > nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM? He still got rich. > > > And even for those jobs that didn't > > decline, there was significant change in what they did. > Mechanics can't > > just know how to fix carburetors, now they have to understand > > fuel-injection. > > Definitely. Janitors now use vacuum-cleaners as well as > brooms. > Telephone operators now use keyboards, not patchcords. > Networkers will > need to know more than just layers 2 and 3. But there will be a > continued demand for R/S as part of the networkers job. > > Another point is that bandwidth is not necessarily cheap all > over the > world, Europe is more expensive than the US, and Asia even > worse, so > engineering is required, in fact surely "traffic engineering" > is all the > rage at the moment. > > I guess what I want to say is that when an economy is booming, > people > unrealistically believe it's forever and they will be > millionaires by > next June. Conversely when the economy is in a trough then > people get > gloomy and believe that they'll never pay off their credit card > bills. > Neither view is realistic. R/S is not dead, it's sleeping and > will wake > up. Granted there will not be the insane rush into network > builds that > we saw a few years ago but the wireless boom is around the > corner.... > > rgds > Marc > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=59431&t=59402 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
