Future IT worker Shortage
The Herald Sun has an interesting article on the future shortage of IT workers due to the decline in Comp. Sci. majors in universities.
"With a critical shortage of Information Technology workers projected in the coming years, it's crucial that university computer science departments do all they can to attract top students to the field, a local IBM official said Tuesday."
These people just don't get it. They wonder why nobody wants to dump tens of thousands of dollars into a so called "education", only to have their jobs outsourced before they can pay off their student loans. This is just typical university and corporate CRAP. What they really want is an over-abundance of IT workers in the field so that they can drive salaries DOWN and retain control.
As an IT professional, I can't imagine why anyone in this country would want a degree in this field. If anything, IT workers should have a degree in a DIFFERENT field so that when their IT jobs get shipped overseas, they have something to fall back on. When the university system and corporate america figure this out, then they will have the answers they are looking for. Changing the curriculum is not going to solve a damn thing. Keeping jobs in AMERICA and taking care of your most valuable assets (your Employees for you morons that can't figure that out) happy, THAT is what is going to attract more workers into the field.
Makes you wonder who the morons running the schools and corporate america are...and more interestingly, how they got there.
