[ale] Bad business

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 17:21, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Stephen Touset wrote:
> 
> > This is one of the reasons why I've recently started really pressuring
> > myself to become more proficient in things like routing, network
> > management, administrating systems, etc., as opposed to coding. The
> > previous jobs being more "physical", and requiring someone's physical
> > presence to a higher extent (than, say, coding), I'm hoping that they'll
> > be much harder to transfer overseas.
> 
> I say this at the risk of looking like a vulture waiting for the carcasses
> of American business to start rotting, but nevertheless...
> 
> Now is a good time to start re-tooling your brain for security work too.
> Based on some of the things I've seen lately coming from off-shore (I will
> not get into specifics to avoid starting a flamewar, but if you read the
> article you'll get my drift), the security industry is really going to
> explode over the next few years...particularly the vulnerability research
> segment.

I agree. Security, infrastructure and anything that REQUIRES hands on
the systems are marginally safe bets for future employment. Teaching
clueless technotards (thanks Illiad!) how to read their email and use
their pc connected to the datacenter in India or Malaysia also seem
safe. One could probably make a decent career of just rplacing toner
cartridges in office. :)

> 
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