the sad state of US technology employment

[David Farber <farber () tmail com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: David Prior <david () priorintelligence com>
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] the sad state of US technology employment
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:23:54 +0000

And not just in NYC.

With the collapse of telecom, I was made redundant from a
research/consultancy group. 15 months later - despite an eighteen year 
IT
career building  applications and networks; despite retraining to Java, 
XML,
Web Services, and other tech; despite a deep understanding of market 
and
economic strategy in telecom; despite authoring five major telecom 
reports,
3 telecom/net/converged industry models, and having consulted all over 
the
world - including presenting to a group including yourself at the FCC;
despite depth and breadth of technology and commercial awareness, and
despite a willingness to commute anywhere at anytime - I still have no 
job.
I could get work as a janitor, I suppose, but then I couldn't pay my 
living
expenses and would run the risk of bankruptcy.

This is not meant to be a sob-story, nor am I feeling sorry for myself. 
If
anything, I feel sorry for those who are so entrenched in 'old-school'
mechanisms that they have cut their workforce, cut their offerings, 
cut
their service, and absolutely destroyed their ability to innovate.

Funnily enough, I believe I've spoken with Brent before now - on the 
Telcom
Dark Ages list. How accurate we were.....

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but surely there are more 
valuable
exercises on the agenda than starting a war. How about starting 
initiatives
that utilise the intellectual and social capital of those who might 
provide
platforms of understanding that could avoid such foolishness in the 
future?

David Prior
david () priorintelligence com
'From the UK - the other white meat'




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Subject: [IP] the sad state of US technology employment




------ Forwarded Message
From: "brent.hunsaker () earthlink net" <brent.hunsaker () earthlink net>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:26:23 -0700 (MST)
To: dave () farber net
Subject:  Re: [IP] on a janitor in a LD Central Office - witness to 
adebacle

Dave,

I was formally employed by Alcatel as a designer on the 
Fiber-to-the-User
system. I am now working for Meier&Frank (Robinson-May Co.) part time. 
It
sounds like this jaitor in a LD CO is doing better than I.

Brent Hunsaker
-------Original Message-------
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Sent: 03/16/03 04:01 PM
To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: [IP] on  a janitor in a LD Central Office - witness to    
adebacle

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From: Ted Dolotta <Ted () Dolotta ORG>
Reply-To: Ted () Dolotta ORG
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:54:12 -0500
To: IP <dave () farber net>
Subject: FW: [IP] a janitor in a LD Central Office - witness to 
adebacle

Boy, now here's a really under-employed guy!  You ever run
into a guy this aware of telecom economics and technical
issues who was cleaning the offices, hallways, and bathrooms
in Holmdel?  This message smells like a put-on to me ...

ted

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I suggest that you talk with people in the NYC area who have been
unemployed
for 6 - 9 months and still have no hope of a job. Unemployment runs 
out
and
besides is hard to live on and eventually you end up looking for some 
way
to
eat.

It may or may not be real but it is believable to me.

Dave

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