IS THIS A POLL? My answer is Fear. Not of losing my job but of losing my hobby. I certainly could move to project peader or some other leadership/management position but I like programming and engineering more than business related jobs.
--- Keith Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems quite a number of American programmers are > getting really paranoid > of losing their jobs to overseas places? > > Is this a trend? Or a fear? > > Though, with a huge failure rate reported in > http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/project/story/0,108 > 01,97283,00.html its not surprising people want to > fail for less cost > somewhere else :-) > > I think a bit of a shake up in the software industry > would be good, it might > make people adapt, change, and innovate a lot more. > > > Regards, > > Keith > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stede Troisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2004 10:00 a.m. > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [XP] An Employee Owned XP Enterprise? > > > > > > Uncle Bob, > > > > does Objectmentor get hurt if programmers in this > country > > lose their jobs in mass or can you position > yourself internationally? > > > > Stede > > > > --- "Robert C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: jhrothjr > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > The thing to understand about economics is > that if > > > you have > > > > perfect competition, nobody makes any profits. > > > > > > > I disagree. If you have perfect competition > then everybody > > makes just > > > enough profit to stay alive. Our population and > our economy is > > > growing. If your business does not grow with > it, it will die. > > > Profit is an essential > > > component of growth, and therefore an essential > component > > of success. > > > > > > > Profit is made > > > > by exploiting some inequity in the market. > > > > > > Profit is made by exploiting the difference > between value > > and cost. > > > This may be an inequity, but it is vital to > civilization, > > Without it > > > we'd all still be hunter-gatherers working > solely for ourselves. > > > > > > A heat engine is driven by the inequity an > inequity of > > temperatures. > > > The economic engine is driven by the inequity of > value and cost. > > > > > > And in the interest of full-disclosure: Economic > Theory > > According to > > > Uncle Bob is about as useful as Object Oriented > principles > > according > > > to Margaret Thatcher. > > > > > > ----- > > > Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) | email: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Object Mentor Inc. | blog: > > > www.butunclebob.com > > > The Agile Transition Experts | web: > > > www.objectmentor.com > > > 800-338-6716 | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > > www.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
