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Is Your Job Next?

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

I am not sure why the power (or danger) of the global economy never really hit me before, but I was checking out elance.com as it was mentioned in a recent book I read. If you don’t know, elance is a services marketplace. Anyway, I searched on there for design providers. Gue ... Continue reading »

4 comments

  • Jake

    1 year ago

    I hope not. Looks like blogging gets as cheap as $10/hour. Yikes.
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  • Anthony

    1 year ago

    I have friends who works part-time on web designs. Better not let them know to avoid a heart attack.
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  • Doug M

    1 year ago

    I am next I've been put "at risk of redundancy" over here in the sunny UK, where IT departments with actual IT capability are dying out in favour of service management. It's sad, upsetting and more than a bit galling especially considering companies and the government over here are always complaining about the lack of skilled workers while at the same time as dropping vast numbers of them.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Think about your current company vs. where you were ten years ago. Even if it's the same company, there are a lot more service providers engaged now.

    You can outsource pretty much every function, whether hardware, software or people. Crazy. Maybe I'm too much of a dinosaur and need to get with the new program as a product manager for hire.
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