What happened to the IT Jobs?

[MaryNET]

I've noticed a big dip in the number of IT jobs in the New York area.

And the few jobs that are listed, I wonder how many of them are fake, especially by employment agencies.

The housing and financial industries are coming crashing down, and I'm sure a lot of IT people in those fields are being laid-off.

Has anybody else noticed this?

 

[SantaMufasa]

I've noticed a big dip in the number of IT jobs in the New York area...Has anybody else noticed this?

I believe it has something to do with your Senator from New York being distracted more than usual lately, from her Job 1 of keeping her constiuents gainfully employed. <big grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[mrdenny]

We have seen the same thing in the So Cal area. There are/were a lot of Mortgage companies in the area, and they always did a lot of hiring. Now that they aren't hiring or are closed the job market has taken a bit of a hit.

Denny
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[philhege]

I believe it has something to do with your Senator from New York being distracted

Ya think? Senator Carpetbagger blew off questions about the 200K jobs she was going to create here.

The "distraction" extends to her organization. When she campaigned for Senator, she set up an interview with an Erie radio station.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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[philhege]

Um, that was Erie, Pennsylvania.

Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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A virtual machine ate my accounting data. I transferred it to a physical box, then I beat it to smithereens with a sledgehammer. I feel better.

 

[rjoubert]

I've noticed a big dip in the number of IT jobs in the New York area.

What part of New York are you talking about? Are you looking in NYC or part of upstate? I could definitely understand it if you were speaking of the Western NY area (Buffalo and surrounding area). I left that area about 3 years ago to move to Indy. The city of Buffalo is shrinking...not only are people moving out of the area, but businesses are too.

 

[LNBruno]

Have you looked over in Bangalore?

< M!ke >
[small]First Rule of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging.[/small]

 

[SantaMufasa]

<rant>

Have you looked over in Bangalore?

Correct, LN, simply look for jobs in those places where the politicians do not tax and blame businesses for the ills of society. (This means listen very carefully to what candidates say about "greedy businesses"...And remember that if businesses become the "whipping boys" for a culture, they will simply leave for Bangalore, South America, the Philippines, et cetera.) If you kill (or badly wound) the "Golden Goose" (Businesses) for the sake of punishing them for making a profit, and to pay for all of our social programs, then guess what...Our Jobs Disappear! When was the last time you were hired for a job by someone on Food Stamps.


Does anyone wonder why Buffalo and Rochester are withering on the vine?...They are in the most heavily taxed area for businesses in the U.S. (New York)

Warning, Will Robinson, Warning!

</rant>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[chrissie1]

Wow, are you running for office Dave?

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[aarenot]

If you can not find a job, maybe you should become one of the evil, heartless, greedy, risk taking, job creating, capital investing, and risking plagues of the world, and start a business.

 

[flapeyre]

FL's First Law of Economics:

No Country Ever Taxed Itself Out of a Recession.

I am reminded of a little poem by National Review's poet laureate, W. H. von Dreele, which appeared, I think in 1968 (showing my age):

Let's contemplate the awful fate
Of people stuck in New York State,
Where twenty million aching backs
Bend under Rockefeller's tax.
Remember, as he runs rough-shod,
That there, but for the grace of God
Go all of us, with shoulders bent,
Had Rocky wound up President.

Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo.

 

[aarenot]

I like the fair tax

 

[SantaMufasa]

I like the fair tax

So do I, but I found out that there aren't enough carnivals in business out there to pay for everything. <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[MaryNET]

What part of New York are you talking about?"

I'm looking in Manhattan. I just moved off Long Island to Queens because I didn't like the traffic. I'm a 10 minute walk to the train station (20 min. to Manhattan).

If you can not find a job, maybe you should become one of the evil, . . . , and start a business."

LOL . . I'm working on a few ideas.

 

[aarenot]

I plunged into the great abyss of evildoers in June of 07, and have only been getting more evil ever since, soon I will not even have a reflection in the mirror. I hope I will still be able to shave ok after I actually start making a, gulp, evil profit...

Can I still be a libertarian, and own a business, or are all the evil doer profit makers republicans.

 

[Bandenjamin]

I plunged into the great abyss of evildoers in June of 07, and have only been getting more evil ever since, soon I will not even have a reflection in the mirror. I hope I will still be able to shave ok after I actually start making a, gulp, evil profit...

The best part about being evil, no more shaving requirements

--Dan
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

 

[aarenot]

So you mean it is ok that I am sitting at my desk/workbench wearing gym shorts, Tshirt, and athletic socks not having showered, or shaved while I bench test a new phone system next to the fireplace in my home office while I listen to some dead kennedy's cranked up loud enough not to hear my kids, and their friends play guitar hero in the other room, just because I am an evil profit pursuer?

 

[Bandenjamin]

So you mean it is ok that I am sitting at my desk/workbench wearing gym shorts, Tshirt, and athletic socks not having showered, or shaved while I bench test a new phone system next to the fireplace in my home office while I listen to some dead kennedy's cranked up loud enough not to hear my kids, and their friends play guitar hero in the other room, just because I am an evil profit pursuer?

Long as the real boss doesn't mind ;-)




--Dan
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

 

[aarenot]

Do you know my wife?

 

[AndrewTait]

Do you know my wife?

I don't know your wife in particular over anyone elses wife, but I know what women, and particularly the one I married is like!!!!


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