[templar]

Wonder where the author was (along with all the other IT people) while the American industrial workers watched their jobs being shipped overseas. First the lower and semi-skilled jobs, then the highly skilled jobs, then managerial jobs when there was no one left to manage.

NAFTA and GATT have made corporate profitibility more important than domestic employability. That's the way it is and the way it will stay. Learn to be more versatile and expect less if you want to survive in the future.

[harpseal]

Well this IT person was and is still buying American when he can. There has been a conscious decision not destroy the American Economy by moving offshore every IT, Engineering, Manufacturing, telecomn job possible. these are moved to very low wage nations and then we wonder why our economy is not doing well. Step 1 is an immediate end to the H1B program and the L1 program. Absolutely every one of these workers should face immediate removal from their jobs. If companies do not like the result then oh well I guess they will realize they made a bad decision.

[1rudeboy]

NAFTA and GATT have made corporate profitibility more important than domestic employability.

Yep, that pesky GATT Treaty. Lurks waiting in the wings for 50 years, and just when your economy suffers from slow growth, swoops right in and takes all your jobs away.

[The Green Goblin]

Wonder where the author was (along with all the other IT people) while the American industrial workers watched their jobs being shipped overseas

Most of them were in junior high school at the time...

[EverOnward]

NAFTA and GATT have made corporate profitibility more important than domestic employability. That's the way it is and the way it will stay. Learn to be more versatile and expect less if you want to survive in the future.

Your advice could prove invaluabe if you would please elaborate. How exactly does one survive with "less" -- less then what? Less than a job? Less than a future? Versatile as in . . . dumpster dining?