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To: epicure who wrote (102859)	5/2/2005 2:33:58 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I doubt that a lot of young Americans are going into information technology as a career anymore. In the last few years I know all the students starting college or adult life I come into contact with--my daugher, her cousins, their friends--are very deliberately choosing careers like retail manager, registered nurse and teacher because these are jobs that cannot be exported to India or somewhere else. Once the information technology companies started exporting every job they could to maximize their own profits, why would any rational young American choose that as a career? It wouldn't make any sense. My sister-in-law is a programmer analyst in her late forties, and she is holding on to her job for dear life, hoping that her ability to communicate clearly with the Indians who do most of the work for her company will save her own position from outsourcing. But of course there are no guarantees, and most people who have to change careers during that life stage lose most of their wealth and just tread water with lower paying jobs, often with no health insurance, until they retire with no pension. Pretty grim outlook.