No tech jobs in there, either
Job losses at computer and data-processing firms have continued during the current economic expansion, years after the crash that ended the late 1990s Internet boom, according to a labor-backed study.
The report by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers, prepared for a Seattle tech-sector labor union, also notes that high-tech firms have fewer employees today than at the start of the 2001 recession.
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I see what they’re talking about in this article. I see companies that used to outsource their IT work bringing their IT workforce in-house because they think it saves them money. (I don’t think it will in the long run, but nobody thinks beyond the current quarterly report anymore.)
So like the article says, there are IT jobs out there, but you have to look at non-IT companies. And it’s easier to find sysadmin-type work than programming work.
Now, the downside. When you do IT work for a non-IT company, you can pretty much forget about specialization. No more working full-time configuring Cisco routers. You’d better know HP printers and Active Directory too. And you might be asked to do some desktop support. We’ve got this one department that uses Macintoshes over here…
Oh, and don’t assume you’ll be able to just work 40 hours a week either.