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Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
This is typical of the short sitedness of so many workers. A few years back, everyone jumped into programming because the job market was hot. No one considered what the world might be like in 10, 20, even 30 years. Money could be made in 6 months, so everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
"In the long run we are all dead" - John Maynard Keynes
Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
Today the economy is down, and software jobs are the posterboy for the depressed job market. Again, no one considers what the job market might be in 10 years, only the next 10 months. So no one wants to do development.
Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
I fear the software labor market is going to be very unstable if this continues.
Originally posted by Kathy Sierra:
All I know is that there's still the general consensus that training is way down, but for schools, I don't know... it's pretty scary, though.
There's a quote from Bruce Eckel in Software Development magazine saying that he is going to build a video studio to start making training videos, since attendance at live classroom training is so dramatically off.
Originally posted by Kathy Sierra:
Lynda Weinman (Lynda.com) seems to be doing really well with her videos along with her books, even though they haven't thrilled me.
Originally posted by Kathy Sierra:
I'm concerned about the class sizes dropping like that. Yikes. I hope it's a somewhat local phenomenon, but it probably isn't. Tech book sales continue to be completely flat, and if you're on the StudioB mailing list, there's talk that it is expected to stay flat or even drop.
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Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
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Cancelled my summer classes, too. I did a lot of prep work figuring with a small class I could have some fun. Maybe the fall will be better.
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Originally posted by James Chegwidden:
Please do not tell me you are one of those adjunct/part-time computer instructors that only want certain "plum" courses ... :roll:
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
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OK, I will keep my mouth shut.
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