This is really wierd. I'm looking for a career change since my

[FloridaPat]

government thinks sends programming jobs overseas is good for the economy. But this very week I am attending a Social and Economic Development conference in Orlando and at lunch today I am going to meet with a lady who does life consulting to hear what she does and how. Life consulting is apparently helping people through career changes and other big issues.

[lizziegrace]

1. Please share what you learn

I think there are many who are looking to change careers by choice or like you, by circumstance.

:hi:

[FloridaPat]

7. What a conference. I go to this every year. Someday I'll actually get

what's everyone is doing, but I really enjoy it. This year they were saying the concept of jobs is going. Things are changing so fast. Education is a big thing. I just read where only 25% of the college grads can read well enough to function. (http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/12/finally_theres.php)

A long time ago, most people in this country owned businesses. 90%. The tax laws were written for them. They the country switched to jobs. The country is dying. The thing to do now is find something you're passionate about and can be of service to fellow citizens to bring fairness, ethics, morality to your local community. We need teachers that can teach badly. There is an aging population which should be able to contribute more to the world than taking a seat at an old age home. We need a big revolt in agriculture. Our current agriculture system is unsustainable for our health, for our food, and for the future hardiness of our children. Our economic system is unsustainable. The careers of the future will be those that can contribute to health, education, legal system (justice is coming sooner than later), the equality of women (half the population is being discriminated against. Once women are involved in government, we will be able to really have people working for peace. Women won't spend 20 raising children to send them off to war.); agriculture - to bring it back to the local level.

So it will take a lot of thought and faith to go forward. The trainer was really neat. She listens to what I have to say and gives me feed back on what she hears. Asks lots of neat questions. She says a lot of people at my age are looking for a career that is fullfilling before we get to retire.

Anyway, I had agreat time. It wa 3 days of getting up at 6:30, driving there and getting home at 11pm.

[CBHagman]

10. I'm not surprised about the college grads' reading skills.

You wouldn't believe the stories I could tell you about people we've hired who don't know the difference between whose/who's, the difference between the words foul/fowl, etc. :scared: I'm becoming quite militant about the hidden treasure of the AVID READER.

[MalachiConstant]

2. do you have your degree

in computer science?

[Vincardog]

3. I do not know about FloridaPat but I have a BS in Information System

Management and Marketing It was a double major instead of a Major and a Minor. IT is dead. I am looking for a school in Denton TX to get myself ready for the TX P/C insurance license. Any body know anything?

[MalachiConstant]

4. there are still a fair

amount of jobs out there for software engineers. check this link out:

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=software+engineering&rl=1&sort=date

[FloridaPat]

6. There are a lot of different areas in software. I'm from the main frame/

Peoplesoft area. Larry Ellision going after PeopleSoft and finally getting it hurt the PeopleSoft market terribly. Then it's hard to stay current as a consultant because I have to pay for my own training at $500 a day. Plus there are a ton of unemployed peoplesoft people out there. Main frame programming has been dead since 2001. Now the big stuff is web programming, unix stuff. I have to compete against 15 year olds. And basically I am getting way to old to have to get a new programming language every year or so. I am currently working at a local government project. A year ago I worked at a state university. Half the people of these projects aren't US citizens. They're all contractors. I've had enough of all this crap.

[FloridaPat]

5. I have a degree in journalism. I don't think they had computer sci

degrees when I went to college. The first computer course was given in my junior year. But no one has really cared. A degree is a degree and once you have the first one, work experience counts just as much. I did go to Control Data institute to learn programming. It was a 6 month course.

[SpeedwayDemocrat]

9. I'm a journalism major too, but I don't tell anyone...

as they all seem to think I'm part of the MSM. I'm so embarrassed about the state of the media in this country, I tend to bury that degree deep in the resume. Do you get many questions about it, FloridaPat?

[Capn Sunshine]

8. The most successful IT people I work with

I run a medium sized investment bank, and don't do any hands on IT. But all the IT guys I know got Novell and MSFT-Oracle database certified.

Also many of them went the security patch route. These areas and LINUX admins on the West coast are still very alive.

If I was going to do computers today I'd learn Web design, and Security. Believe me, those two areas aren't going anywhere, and places like China and India are contracting US Security firms to come fix their dbases by the boatload. You can't farm out everything.

[Deja Q]

11. Hate to say this, but

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1627782

Security jobs ARE going bye-bye.

Web design is done in third world countries too.

They are trying to farm out everything. And they're starting to do a good job. (At offshoring). But if they want America to be defended, that's where the trouble starts coming in.