I think there is IT training in colleges here in the USA. Just not Mainframe courses.
Most universities here believe that the OPEN SYSTEMS is the only areas to teach. I took a JAVA and C++ college class. I asked if they would offer some mainframe languages like Assembler and COBOL and PL/I. I got laughed at. It seems they no longer understand the significance of the mainframe envionment. Which really is good. When I retire I hope to make 110+/hr as a contractor from HOME working on all the areas that the university is neglecting here. Lizette >Tom, > >when I said people stopped studding IT I mean people in college. > >My friend himself was an IT Student, but decides to go to an >management school after he realized companies in the US are sending >their IT programming to other countries. > >I don't think it's only money, IT companies have no choice as senior >programmers start quitting work and there is nobody to put in their >places. > >That's the circle. > >Sorry to say it was a xenophobic problem, but that sounds like it was. > >I agree that a large number of the firms here (again I don't know >India) gets first-year college students to put in positions where it >was needed to put a senior programmer, and that is why we're cheaper, >at least at first sight. After a while, as this student gets >experience programs will be better, but that will only happens when >the contractor has invested so much money that he doesn't want to came >back and start all over again. But it's to late. > >So the problem is not the programmer himself, but the companies that >hire interns to do senior jobs. > >It's all about money! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
