Like my wife, I'm a story teller. The paint crew had already left for Costa Rica, so I ended up having to settle for a US citizen to paint my house. It cost a lot more, since he was bonded.
Eight Indian programmers do what I used to do for the bank I used to work at. Between them, they earn $92K. (2 stateside at $30,500, 6 in India at $5,000) At the time of my termination I made between $65K and $75K. I got 46 weeks' pay, and $356/week from you and the other fine citizens of NC & the USA. Does that sound cost effective? As I said, I offered to move to India for $10,000/year. No can do. Americans need not apply... So that global economy you read about is one way, a myth, a con... One last question: if these Chinese, Vietnamese, Philipino, Indian, and Irish programmers are so darn good, why haven't they written the $5 replacement for Windows, that runs on methane? Need more info? Start with http://www.numbersusa.com -- Bob Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (read/delete weakly...) alt email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (read/delete daily M-F) 704 562-7166 mobile 704 954-3415 office 704-882-6214 home...last resort, please http://www.carolinux.com Bringing Linux to the Carolinas... IRC://freenode/charlug There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- 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
