[TheForge] happy workers, happy shareholders

[Andy Vida]

Justin Fisher wrote:
> 
> At 09:26 PM 12/19/2003, you wrote:
> >The software
> >         industry is one of the prime offenders in this manner.  People
> >         are paid a salary for a 40-hour week, yet are routinely
> >         expected to work anywhere from 60 to 80 or more hours.  That
> >         is insane.
> 
> That is one reason I have been a contract programmer for the past 13
> years.  I don't have any job security (who does anymore?) and I don't get
> any benefits, but at least I get paid when I work.  Of course, now they're
> talking about sending the jobs to India...

	I've been at it for 11 years.  Money's better, less hassle,
	no ladder climbing/back-stabbing...  All in all, a better
	deal, though living in a hotel sucks the big one.

	I'm not convinced the outsourcing to India will last.  
	Outsourcing your life-blood code is like placing your
	balls into the hands of a complete stranger on the
	promise that they will take good care of them.  Sure.
	The pendulum will probably swing the other way on this
	issue, as it has on basically all others.  The important
	stuff will come home where it is safest, and the trivial
	nonsense will go where it is cheap.  I would not trust
	my code to an outsourcing agent for any money... not if
	my business was really important to me.
> 
> --Justin, thinking it's hard to out-source plumbing.
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