Two years ago I had a slide-rule hung on my wall with a "Y2K Plan B" sign on
it. Guess it's time to dust it off...
Brian Norrell
Manager, MPI Development
QuadraMed
511 E John Carpenter Frwy, Su 500
Irving, TX 75062
(972) 831-6600
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BCG (Birth Control Glasses) wearers of the world unite! Tape on the
nose-bridge is required.
--Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
"Orr, Steve" wrote:
>
> The weight in ounces of the Sunday San Jose Mercury News Classifieds is a
> valid measure of economic activity. At one point it was around 24 pages
for
> IT jobs but it recently has been down to 1-2 pages.
>
> A few years ago, despite the positive outlook for careers in computer
> science, students majoring in computer science was down because of the
geek
> stigma. The result was a shortage in IT workers. Then came the Internet
> bubble and students began jumping onto the computer science bandwagon.
So...
> to ensure demand for our services we should discourage student enrollment
in
> the computer sciences by playing up the geek, propeller-head thing. :-)
>
> Got pocket protector?
> Steve Orr
>
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>
> Another sign of the times is that ITI is closing its US schools.
> For those who don't know - it is a computer training school. They started
> years
> ago as a school in Atlantic Canada offering a 10 month course. Later they
> expanded to few Canadian and US cities. Last year they advertised on TV
and
> radio about 400,000 unfilled positions in e-commerce etc. and
> offered-commerce
> training. Yesterday I have heard that they are scaling back...
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