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djean111

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11. I was a programmer/system manager/QA/overseas support and liaison for one of

Reply to TexasMommaWithAHat (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 08:50 PM

Dec 2014

the biggest telecoms. Watched almost everything go overseas; what was left went to H-1b visas. Not replaced with better - replaced with cheaper. Variety of crap jobs since then, now I have my Social Security. Learned to think of all jobs as ephemeral at best. I wish you luck, I really do. And I feel the current situation is really just a game being played at high levels, between countries and banks. The jobs are just collateral damage, to them. This was all going to happen eventually, I think, but over a period of time, not the current crash.

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Crashing Oil Prices Will Be Terrible ONLY For A Tiny Part Of The US Economy [View all] Fred Sanders Dec 2014 OP

only if you call banks, private equity and @ 9% of the economy "tiny" elehhhhna Dec 2014 #1

Who suffers then? Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #2

tx, ok, ak, co, ca, nm, ut, wy,nd,sd,la, pa, off the top of my head. elehhhhna Dec 2014 #4

When you hire on with Wellstone ruled Dec 2014 #3

and when every job gained by the OA goes away in the next 12 months, elehhhhna Dec 2014 #5

Well, we IT folks who saw our high-paying jobs with good benefits go overseas and to h-1b visa djean111 Dec 2014 #6

i am a staffing rockstar headhunter. i watched IT go to hell back then. elehhhhna Dec 2014 #7

Oh, I have been called a racist because the IT jobs are gone. Not cool either. djean111 Dec 2014 #8

we probably agree then elehhhhna Dec 2014 #9

Well, you could be a programmer for an oil company TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #10

I was a programmer/system manager/QA/overseas support and liaison for one of djean111 Dec 2014 #11