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To: bentway who wrote (257977)	11/2/2005 12:57:29 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) of 1575170

"The last stat I read is that it's running about 6-8% for software developers, which is what I used to do." That might be the case. There still is an overhang after the Internet bubble collapse. But "software developer" covers a lot of area, everything from COBOL coders to embedded programmers on specific processors. The closer you get to the hardware, the lower the unemployment rate. There is a lesson to be learned here. My software engineering prof. kept pushing the outsourcing button. OTOH, he also was a flagrant Bushite and pushed his agenda at every turn. Sort of odd because probably 60% of the class weren't Americans, being mostly Hindu or other Asians. Even had a couple of Africans. Not many white, Americans like me. FWIW, there were more black Americans in that class. Not sure what that means. And this at a school(Texas A&M) that has a reputation for being extremely white. Which, FWIW, it is. At the undergraduate level at least. At the graduate level, at least in the departments that are the closest to my interest, i.e. CS, CE and EE, that isn't true.

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