I am always amazed at the large, diverse responses this humble, worthless programmer
gets from his posts by such famous, professional and successful giants as Ron
Jeffries, Kent Beck, CIOs, CFOs and others throughout this the world. I must thank you
all again for taking the time out of your busy schedules to answer my posts.
First, I must address a mistake. I said Outsourcing in my first post but really mean
Offshoring or sending work to people who can do it for 10,000 times less. I just don't
see how you can compete one way or another with this. Especially in a field where most
clients don't understand or use whatever they are paying you to do in the first place.
I must admit I don't care too much. I fell in love with computers and programming in
1984 with my First TI-99-4A and my beloved Commodore 64. Although I have always wanted
to do what I love for money I never understood why any company would hire programmers
full-time to begin with. Although I have been a business programmer for about 8 years
now I still don't.
Most applications small to medium sized companies develop (which seems to be the
companies I do work for) all seem to do the same boring things anyway. They cost huge
amounts of money, rarely are more then toys to show off and never get completed
satisfactory or not at all. Being on the Intranet side of things I see this even more
then custom desktop applications for reasons I am not sure about.
Now with Offshoring this stuff for pennies on the dollar I am shocked I currently have
a gig and that recruiters still call at all. I just keep wondering if I am missing
something here which lead to my original post.
It also got me thinking about my new interest of starting and running a business using
my beloved hobby of computers and programming. It seems that all skills are cheap and
workers always get the bad end of the stick. Anything can be outsourced, offshored and
cheapened over time, leading to more retraining with the insignificant amount of money
you made in the first place only to start at the bottom of the payscale again in
tomorrows "hot job."
Maybe all these programmers around the world need more computer books on programming?
What about development tools? Agile methods???
Maybe I can get rich (or at least make a living) writing books like Ron Jeffries on
things that interest me rather then doing the same damn txtFirstName = Rs("FirstName")
every day. Maybe I build my own development tool and market it throughout the world?
Has anyone else ever thought along these lines?
CodeMonk
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