by Howard Fosdick May 2019 The market for IT labor is a worldwide market. Foreign competition affects your salary – and even whether you can get a job. The laws our government passes pertaining to this foreign competition shape your career. These laws frequently change and can impact your work life big time. They might
Where’s the Forum!!!???! Gone and “disappeared”. Curated dutifully for 14 years by yours truly, this forum site had been one of the VERY few forums that were not corporate-controlled and which gave a voice to the silent generations of IT people, software engineers and developers who started in IT in the 1960s through the early
by Howard Fosdick May 2019 Your twenties is your best life in IT. You’ve got your degree and snagged a good job. It pays well, and though it comes with its share of hassles and too much overtime, you’re pretty darn glad you didn’t major in theater or history or English. Those poor unfortunates are
by Howard Fosdick May 2019 Today you’re a successful programmer, developer, programmer-analyst, or web developer. But where will you be in ten or twenty years? Look around most IT organizations and you’ll see few, if any, techies in their forties or fifties doing your job. As I argued in my related article, regardless of how