Programming 327

I have a MCP for .Net and working on the MCAD for .Net. and if you got it on the resume you can demand more money.

--did you say 'DEMAND'? You mean like walking in to an interview and waving your fist at the HR person yelling:" I just paid $3500 for an MCSE course, and then answered 10 questions, and got me a piece of toilet paper which says MCSE on it, and I DEMAND you pay me $35-hr, instead of outsourcing my job to India for $2-hr"

--no explanation for this one I see. Why has Telecom as a major and a career completely collapsed in the US?

I am working with people from India on a project right now and you can bet they are not getting paid $2 an hour.

--yes, they graduated from school here; I am talking about people in India, Russia, China, etc.

What are you talking about? .Net programming although it is Internet centric is not only for Internet applications as one can develop .Net Windows, NT

--who cares. Ever heard of the dot.com bubble? The fact is that no one is going to be foolish enough anymore to invest in start-ups with IPO and caviar dreams who employ Frontpagers, script kiddies, and 20 year old Flash wizards.

I have never been in a God Damn union in companies that where unioned and don't ever want to be any in one either.

--good 4 u, as you might be forced to go on a strike like our NYC MTA workers just did.

If I thought you really knew anything about programming to make money and put food on the table or about .NET you would be dangerious. You are not! The only dangerious part about you is that you don't know waht you're talking about and you need to run your mouth.

.NET and programming jobs in the US are not going anywhere. Legacy application running in companies running on mainframes and client servers

--the fact is that programming is dead; just as textile, furniture, and electronis factories in the US, the labor was and is going to continue to be offshored.