Steve Jobs has gone to India to oversee the transfer of Apple's Research & Development to India from Apple's headquarters in Cuppertino, CA.
I was in the Silicone Valley two months ago. I couldn't believe how depressed it was compared to the booming times of the 80's and 90's. Apple sending R&D overseas drives it home that the Silicon Valley may be done for the average engineer and programmer. The corporate headquarters will still be there with the rich top management living in Pebble Beach, Los Altos, or Mill Valley.
When I was in school, they told us to become programmers and engineers because the manufacturing jobs would go overseas. Some of the smartest did do that and landed jobs in the Silicon Valley only to find they cost the company too much and were laid off.
I now know some programmers who have gone to culinary school trying to make it as a chef. It looks like the only well paying jobs that are going to be left in the US are high end service jobs who cater to the ever increasing number of billionares who make money selling the rest of us out.
Being a chef is not a bad idea. We could poison the bastards and take our jobs back.
I was in the Silicone Valley two months ago. I couldn't believe how depressed it was compared to the booming times of the 80's and 90's. Apple sending R&D overseas drives it home that the Silicon Valley may be done for the average engineer and programmer. The corporate headquarters will still be there with the rich top management living in Pebble Beach, Los Altos, or Mill Valley.
When I was in school, they told us to become programmers and engineers because the manufacturing jobs would go overseas. Some of the smartest did do that and landed jobs in the Silicon Valley only to find they cost the company too much and were laid off.
I now know some programmers who have gone to culinary school trying to make it as a chef. It looks like the only well paying jobs that are going to be left in the US are high end service jobs who cater to the ever increasing number of billionares who make money selling the rest of us out.
Being a chef is not a bad idea. We could poison the bastards and take our jobs back.
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