Smasharoo wrote:
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Not surprising, it's the low or unskilled labor that moves outside the country. Skilled jobs tend not to do that.
Yeah, those 14 million software development jobs that were moved to India don't count, naturally.
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/Research_Report_Fall_2003.pdf
Sometimes the amazing thing is that I think you actually BELIEVE that it soemthing doens't happen to you personally, it's not happeneing to anyone.
I'm relatively certain that this is the quote that started the whole debate Smash. This is what I was referring to. I'm also quite confident that I've proven my point.
Look. You obviously have an agenda here, and it's equally obvious that it's tainting your opinion on this issue. I just find it odd that the only source I can find about jobs in my field being outsourced to other countries isn't coming from anyone who actually works in my field, but from vague statistics and "scary" predictions from people like you.
I suppose I could go hide under the covers because chicken little has declared that the sky is falling, but I think I'm just going to be a realist about this instead. If and when I see actual significant numbers of people in my field being outsourced, then I'll think about alternatives (oh, like finding a different field). Until then, what exactly do you expect me to do? Quit now? Start protesting in the streets even though outsourcing has nothing at all to do with government decisions? I'll worry about that when it becomes an issue, if at all. Until that day, there are vastly more likely things that could cause me to lose my job that I'll focus on.
My point is that this is a non-issue at this time. No matter how desperatly people like you try to make it into one, it just isn't. There are so many other factors that could come into play that worrying about just one of them, especially one about which I can't do anything, just seems silly...