To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (501219 ) 12/1/2003 1:29:57 AM From: Lazarus_Long Respond to Oh, God, Liz, cut it out. I know you have a severe allergy to fact, but try this:calmis.ca.gov older engineers in preference to younger? They cost more. Get real. This is much more common:bayarea.com Research by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers supports Matloff's claim that veteran coders are being driven out of the field. In a 1998 report, the institute discovered that unemployed members typically require three additional weeks to find a new job for each year of age over 45. archive.salon.com Okay, forget all those economic numbers and forecasts and technical analysis crap. That all means nothing in predicting how the economy is going. Instead, just check out how crowded highway 101 is heading through Silicon Valley at rush hour. At least, that's the idea behind this article that brings up some anecdotal reports that traffic is getting worse - which many people are interpreting to mean that the jobs are coming back, too. They say the traffic feels just like it did when the dot coms started catching on. While there may be something to that (and I've heard others say the same thing), it certainly feels like people are just looking for any sign that things are picking up, and will latch onto anything. It's not quite trying to divining the future from animal entrails, but I wouldn't use it as the most definitive measure of economic life in the Valley. techdirt.com might get your credibility back to where that percentage of SI readers believe anything you say.
