Reply: 1.2.1.1.1
From: Tibor Bode
On 7/5/02 3:21:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Hi Anon,
>
>I, too, was shafted from my IT
>job last year with 20 years
>experience under my belt.
>Needless to say, I was a bit
>pissed off about it, but as I
>started to go through the
>interview process again, I
>thought to myself: 'I don't
>want to do any of this crap
>any more', and basically
>withdrew from the market. As
>you say, there was less and
>less around, and what there
>was, was very dull and boring.
I can totally relate to your feelings, and also considering the same.
>I'm not really complaining
>though - I did OK out of I.T.,
>earning pretty good money and
>travelling the globe at
>corporate expense, but I
>reckon the IT industry has
>only itself to blame - it shot
>itself in the foot by pricing
>itself out of the market. In
>the 90s, all the larger
>companies were scrabbling to
>get integrated systems such as
>SAP & Oracle etc installed -
>initially at huge cost plus
>the same again for
>implementation - squillions of
>$$$ - for what measurable gain
>on the bottom line?
>
>Then came the Y2K mania - more
>huge expense.
>
>Then everybody had to prepare
>for GST - more $$$ - and the
>lunacy of the dot.coms finally
>exploded (imploded?) and
>everybody just stood back and
>thought 'shit - what's
>happening?', wondering where
>all the money went and what it
>was spent on and for what
>return
>
>And they're still wondering.
>
>Just like us, wondering where
>the next job opportunity will
>come from, or whether we
>should get ourselves
>re-trained in another
>industry, and if so, which
>one?
Your analysis is exactly the as mine, with the only difference, that the big time stuff up decisions were made by senior idiots, pardon, I keep forgetting, management (lots of very well known suits) and their very
(-in)competent board mates, not by the people
who were shafted. They are just the pawns (resources)in the game plan.
>Or we just say 'stuff it' and
>battle on building our own
>wealth through property.
Yep, seems a reasonable solution, just those annoying bills still coming in and distracting me from it.
>Good 'ere, innit? And it's
>Friday, too.
>
>Have a good weekend - I think
>it might actually be getting a
>bit warmer, or is that just
>wishful thinking?
You to and yes it is just wishful thinking, it is actually bleeding cold to my liking)
I am not sure how the above relevant to this thread, but some bleeding heart IT whinging at least helps not to feel sorry for myself.
Tibor