On Thursday 02 February 2006 05:58 pm, Philip Pemberton wrote:
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"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
I would think
the last thing a parent wants their kids to do these days is be a
commodity coder, engineer, or electronics repairman because of the low
pay and offshoring. We are turning into a nation of MBAs, burger
flippers, salespeople, and paper shufflers.
Yes, but wait until those MBAs and sales guys realise they actually need
products to sell. Who's going to design their products if there are no
engineers left?
You can't escape death, and you can't build a business on hot air and empty
promises.
You don't think they'll try and outsource that, too?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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