Hyrum, Thanks for your sensitive question. No disrespect taken (Now the truckers that come and harrass me at 3:00am at Dennys, they disrespect...)
It's true that the economy isn't what it used to be -- you know back in the good old days when career fair representatives actually took your resume instead of just telling you to visit www.theirsite.com/jobs. Alas. Many of us have had to face reality; there is no future in the computer field. Fortunately, we're not too proud to flip a burger to two, when times call for it. Whatever it takes to bring home the bacon, or um money, or whatever. The short of it is this, technology is ruining the American way of life. My advice -- get out while you can. Run to Canada! Sure it's cold up there and they talk funny, but they have a better health care system, and there are lots of jobs (lumberjacks etc) due to people fleeing from that forsaken tundra. Frankly, Canada leaks people like a sieve, but that means opportunites for disillusioned computer science people like you and me. Don't hestitate -- act now before you end us like most of the UUG'ers -- dead-end jobs, spending most of our time on slashdot and mailing lists, sending hatemail to SCO, ... COMPUTERS ARE NOT WORTH IT! Very sincerely, mrbyrd I forgot one: M. Torrie works at Food For Less > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:49, Michael Ryan Byrd wrote: >> * Halcrow works at Arbys, Probst is night-manager at Carl's Jr. and I >> work the swing shift at Denny's. >> >> ** The Fugal brothers work at Gen-X, the McNabbs all work in the BYU >> Food Court, and Art serves up the fish and chips at PG's Purple >> Turtle. > > I've got a question about that. To all those who work in such > establishments, I mean you no disrespect, but why? I mean, is the > market so flooded by tech-types that those that are knowledgeable about > such things aren't able to get jobs. Or, even if they can get jobs in > the tech sector, the supply is more than the demand, wages fall, and > they must pick up other work? Or, is it simply a factor of being too > bored and wanting a little extra flow? Like lots out there, I just > concerned about my ability to be gainfully employed when I graduate. > > Anyway, just a thought. > > -Hyrum > > PS - The Purple Turtle is the bomb. Great shakes. > > -- > Need an Open Source Genealogy tool? Help write one! > http://openancestry.sourceforge.net/ > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ List > Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
