Have high tech degree will travel.
Paul:
First things first,so allow me to kid around a bit hope you don't mind.
For one thing we are still a year and a half away from the 'impending doom' so perhaps for right now a cool beer must prevail and calm down the nerves. What do you guys make up there Heineken?? Lovely beer I must say. Have one and chill and have for me as well.
So you got Y2K problems in Europe,I have a solution but it'll cost you some money. What you guys need is some Indian engineers,but they don't want to come as high tech 'wet-backs' as in the early days [pardon me guys just joking-in spite of the fact it is a tasteless joke and not very funny-my apologies in advance.] and you need to pay them some moolah.Here are the going rate per my source.
Undergraduates from any of the Indian Institutes of Technology will run you about 85 grand a year to start, a Birla Institute of Technology types or state universities may work for $60-70 grand for starters.I hear a lot of U.S,European and Japanese companies are on their campuses recruiting. It sounds like a joke,but it is true.
Now on a serious note, I guess you do raise a valid point but I think the Europeans are probably a little behind than the Americans in this area.The last I heard our Social security is coming along just fine, IRS may have problems but they always have problems even without the Y2K,U.S banks and Insurance companies are on track at least this what they tell me.
So, IMHO, even if there is a collapse of world trade and economy come 2000 shouldn't wait at least 5-6 months before doomsday????
Forget about S.E Asia they are fried already anyway,Y2K isn't going to make much of a difference.The Chinese and Indians I am sure still relay on pencil and paper because I don't think all their businesses are fully computerized. Indians and Pakistanis are busy making the bomb,and besides a lot of the business are done underground and computers are the last thing they worry about because probably there is no record to begin with anyway and same goes for the Chinese.<VBG>
Did I leave out anybody??? The Latin Americans,oh they run on 'macho'
more than computers as far as I know,and the Africans I believe are still on barter system so no problem there.
So the only people with money and computers are the Americans and then the Europeans so let's all panic and dump everything and hide the loot under the mattress,you with me????
Now that I have offended everybody pretty much,apologies in advance,
and allow me to take cover. |
