Don't worry about this tech slowdown, folks. We're just in the cooling
down
period after the mindless Internet Orgy of the past couple of years, where
rational thinking was abandoned in favor of raw, below-the-belt urges to
mate. The market is just temporarily smoking a cigarette and contemplating
the consequences of its actions as it lays in bed. Tomorrow it will go
back
to its wife, little Timmy, and the dog, Scruffles.
That's a pretty vivid word picture, Adam. It makes a lot of sense, unless
you're one of those out-of-work dot-com workers. I heard on the news the
other week that something like 857 dot-com companies have gone under since
mid-1999 when the slowdown started. It amounted to several thousand
workers, IIRC.
I figure there's two ways to look at this:
1. The fair-weather programmers, those who got into the business to chase
outrageous stock options and IPO riches, will go back to whatever they did
before the slowdown. That will leave those of us who have chosen this as
our full-time profession, providing we can survive financially until the
flood of IT workers recedes.
2. The sky is falling. We'd all better learn to say, "Would you like
fries with that?" and stock up on peanut butter for when the unemployment
runs out.
I'm betting on scenario #1, personally. My immediate challenge is in
forming that survival plan so I can continue in my chosen field. It's not
easy, since my current job decided to become the job from Hell right about
the same time as all my options dried up, but that's why I learned several
different programming languages. I prefer ColdFusion, but I still know
Perl, and I could probably dust off my C++ or VB knowledge if I really,
really had to.
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