On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:29:03AM -0500, Magnus Hedemark wrote: > This doesn't take into account the growing trend of offshoring. We're > already feeling the effects of this. It remains to be seen whether > offshoring will lose its lustre in practice or if this will change our > profession for a much longer duration.
I think offshoring is changing our culture. I had lunch not long ago with my friend Ravi. He told me that his brother, a physician in India, gets less than $10 for an office visit. Upon hearing this I could imagine going to a clinic for an exam with a local nurse-practitioner and a fiberoptic link to India with Ravi's brother. Then I would go to the web to get my 'script filled. Then I read this this week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3467105.stm I've read that accountancy is being offshored. I've also read, much to my delight, that CEOs are going to be offshored too. I don't think we'll actually hear about CEO offshoring - it's too sensitive. The blue-collars were the canaries. The computer geeks are the the second wave. Offshoring works well. Everything else will go now. Don't expect a significant rise in onshore project management as some predict. I think it would be unwise to wait for the return of the good-old days. I once thought I'd nestle into telephony until I retired. Now I wonder what I'll be doing next year at this time. I'm not as bored as I used to be. -- Mike Two hundred years ago, we note mischievously, the average American or European had a standard of living not very much superior to that of the average man in India or China. -- dailyreckoning.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
