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To: IceShark who wrote (9056)	2/11/2000 5:06:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Respond to of 42523

<<What is the deal with being an Indian national and a programmer? >> Thousands of engineers are cranked out each year from many engineering colleges across the country. There are not enough jobs in the native fields. Of course, programming is the natural choice for comp science majors (offered as an Engineering major as well as in liberal arts colleges) Non-computer degree holders, especially engineers convert to programming. I have done a lot of coding myself, mainly to make myself more efficient at what I do. My masters minor in Comp. Science helps me too. In 1993 the lure of Oracle based programming or network computing was very tempting. Still, I did not want to do programming for living. I got swayed a couple of times but pulled myself back in to my own profession in which I have some name recognition. (I am not sure why, though! -g-) The way I see most computer related jobs is that they are now glorified clerical jobs and will be full-fledged clerical jobs in the future. That is just my opinion and that is why I did not convert. For technical professionals like me, computer literacy - including programming - is a must these days.