From: "Dean Kent" >>I guess when the "urgency and panic" arrives the people still left >>working are going to be offered an obscene amount of money not to jump >>ship when some other company who needs your services makes obscene job >>offers.
> Perhaps one can look at it as another Y2K opportunity... possibly an extended one. > I'm thinking that somewhere around 1960 is the mainframe KT boundary. No Dinosaurs were born after that date... ;-). Wishful thinking. The Y2K (non-)fiasco left a bad taste in a lot of mouths. Potential employers are likely to be a lot more reticent about waving around large wads of money. With the consolidations we are seeing, and the continued off-shore push, I fear there'll be no work for any of us. I'd love to think we as a group (me in particular ... :o) ) will become increasingly more valued (and valuable), but I don't see it happening. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
