[LayoutGuru2]

I just spent the last 6 months training my replacement who happens to reside in India. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop now. My company can hire three people in India for what it costs to retain me.

I guess it just makes good business sense. Bleh!!!

Any ideas on a good 'outsourcing-proof' choice for my next career? No, I don't want to manage my local Dairy Queen.

[Jeff Head]

As a senior manager, I left a company about four years ago over these issues.

I began consulting, communicating my own feelings about circumstances through writing books, helping other like-minded people publish their own books, using my self-taught html skills to develop web sites and have finally coupled those latter two with working on computer systems locally here in SW IDaho. Ultimately, a major earnings hit...but I am completely self-employed and we are making ends meet.

I still offer consulting services for offshore production...but find no one wants to hear my advise, which is to NOT use countries like China, to make sure that they use multiple sources in far flung geographic locations that are friendly to US interests, and to ensure that they develop ways now to keep critical capabilities and mfg. here in the USA as guard against potential geo-political upheavel.

Like I said, in most corporate board rooms, those are messages that they do not want to be hear right now.

[Monty22]

Sadly, just about any service will be shipped overseas, following the manufacturing that left in the early 90's. And it won't be coming back.

This will directly lead to the destruction of the middle class in the USA, and probably a revolution down the road.

[L`enn]

No, I don't want to manage my local Dairy Queen.

Prolly can't do that either. A Pakistani is running it.