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Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, Opportunity in India by tandula

tandula — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:57:57 +0000

Your roomie is not looking at it right. Civil Engr should be a field that is abound with opportunity right now in India. All the new highways, bridges … The country is going through such a revamp that particularly civil engr should be a wonderful way to make a living there right now. Roomie should just be willing to work somewhere that is not HomeTown that’s all.

Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, Opportunity in India by Maverick

Maverick — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:34:28 +0000

yeah probably priorities might change over time, to me opportunity means getting a chance to do work which u’ve always wanted to do and well…get paid for it too

And yeah I agree on that part, we’ve been talking only abt IT(whose chances I still belive are great in India.. but lets leave it at tht ). My roomie is a graduate in Transportation Engineering( a spec in civil) and he keeps saying that he wont have many opportunities in India.

Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, Opportunity in India by tandula

tandula — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:50:34 +0000

Also, I guess after being in the workforce for over 12 years, one’s priorities and views change.
To you right now, Opportunity means having a job.
To me, opportunity collectively means having the job, but also being happy where I work, enjoying the company, and it being a company that respects my rights to a private life.
to me, just having a job, is borderline to simply surviving, and to me, just surviving is not enough.

Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, Opportunity in India by tandula

tandula — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:38:18 +0000

Yes, they would still find work. I realise we both are speaking mainly about IT pros, but work in the real sense is not limited to IT.

Work can be anything: Retail, hotel industry, food & wine, entertainment, cleaning services, dogwalking … the list is endless.
btw, dogwalkers here in SF are making such good money that IT seems almost pointless. but not everybody wants to pick up dog**** for a living

and that Desi consultant scam has me bitter to the bone. not because of the success of those liers, no. but because of the people who hire them. To get hired in USA, particularly in IT, you need not have real talent, or experience, you only need to memorise those interview answers and answer it with confidence. you get hired and paid well on teh spot.

anyway, I have hw to do. University never ends

Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, Opportunity in India by Maverick

Maverick — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:04:14 +0000

well, thx for making a post for my reply. I’m totally aware of the hectic work schedules that exist in India. And I’m too of the opinion that work atmosphere in US is better than that of India. But again, lets not confuse opportunities with atmosphere. Opportunities are becoming abundant in India with people getting placed frm the third year of the engineering.

And when I say people , I mean people who are worth. There are ofcourse some Engg graduates who doesn’t deserve to be called Engineers and its they who want to work, but do not find it.

Now again coming to US, lemme remind that there is this whole huge desi consultant scam, where people who just graduate with who-knows-what grades are faked as consultants having 6-7 yrs of experience, with fake resumes and sometimes fake phone interviews get placed with some client and work their ass-up to keep up to their Resume. If all these consultants were banned and If one were supposed to find a job, being the person that he actually is, do you still think all those who want to work will still find the work?

Comment on How do other people deal with insomnia by MaanKind

MaanKind — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:26:58 +0000

Ek doen presies wat jy sê, kyk na die patrone agter my oë. Of ek doen Reiki op myself, werk elke keer, en ek het die voordeel van die Reiki.

Comment on How do other people deal with insomnia by sonkind

sonkind — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:26:55 +0000

3h15 - Dis die tyd wat ek elke nag my oe vind oopvlieg en dan kan ek maar vergeet. En dan, 6h00, wanneer ek wil slaap, moet ek opstaan.

Nou dink ek snags stories uit, staan saggies op en gaan skryf dit in shorthand neer.

Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, insider views by tandula

tandula — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:19:57 +0000

my newest post is my answer … I still believe the USA has better opportunity, infrastructure, care for the people … plus, over here the PERSON still matters.

Certain kinds of jobs are harder to find, and lay-offs happen often, but I’ve never met a person here who really wanted to work, and didn’t.

If you want to work, you will have a job in this country. it may not be your dream job, but it will be a job. So many people have 2 or 3 different jobs. If you’re inbetween career moves, you always have the option here of keeping afloat with lower paying jobs. Not to mention working for yourself!

Comment on Offshoring, Outsourcing, insider views by Maverick

Maverick — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:24:21 +0000

I agree u completely have the right to express your point of view. That said, I would also want to say that when we talk about job opportunities letx just talk abt it. Infrastructure is in no way related to opportunities. Yeah Infrastructure in India and so do many other things need to be upgraded. But they are getting done, infact in a faster pace. I would say that I’m just optimistic that India is really catching up.

Comment on How do other people blow their nose? (once more) by MaanKind

MaanKind — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:02:24 +0000

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