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The future's so bright we'll have to wear shades

Posted on July 06, 1999

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by Martin Burns (MartinB)

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Martin Burns

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User since: April 26, 1999

Last login: March 30, 2010

Articles written: 128

It's probably no surprise to those of us at the chalkface, but the demand for IT-aware people, and the money paid for them, is going through the roof, and will continue to do so. And now officially the US Government agrees.

In a major study, The Emerging Digital Economy II, employment growth in IT is growing half as fast again as the general US economy, and at $50k, average pay for Internet designers are around 66% over the national average. If you really want to know where the money is, it's in eCommerce, paying on average over $100k (nice work if you can get it).

Of course, to get the work, you need the education and skills. Wages are predicted to be directly linked to educational attainment and skill level, so that training course is worth the money!

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

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Outsourcing for Cheap IT people

Submitted by martinangelo on May 1, 2002 - 12:58.

Im from Philippines, I think someday outsourcing IT Jobs, will flatten the demand in IT and re fix the proffesional pay demands in IT related Jobs. Right now we are just in a shifting moment, a fast moment that we cant able to pull out the shades and close our eyes. The IT thing suddenly is not well so really bright, after four years IT will be just an ordinary thing, an ordinary proffesion and supply will be just more than enough than the demand.

USA cost of IT is well bit in a high stake prices and investment, some day ASIA IT resources will rise and e-commerce businesses will more invest in ASIA IT people, To Martin Burns "The future's so bright we'll have to wear shades" well the Sun also sinks in the west and rises in the east someday we had to put off the shades and work more to exceed the east.

West must learn this lesson, as soon as possible keep look up the power of the east Nations in IT. Well just a thought, I may suggest right now the best thing the West can do now, is to look forward in outsourcing the east right now, to enable to cope up in the IT war.

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