Well John, I hope that you understand that your problem is with
companies that outsource projects to India (or anywhere else) for
$15ph, rather than H1's in whose case the employee has to come to US
and has to be paid the current market rate.
tincanman9_at_yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<3cb1d12d.2345437_at_netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
> Understood.
>
> John
>
> On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:16:32 GMT, "RSH" <RSH_Oracle_at_worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>
> >And, yes, the DBA market is flooded with inexperienced, underqualified
> >labor, with impressive but often quite false resumes.
> >
> >Have fun.
> >
> >RSH.
> >"John W." <tincanman9_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:3cb075d7.3963078_at_netnews.worldnet.att.net...
> >> Was working at a large telecom. They had been in trouble for a long
> >> time. Since the time I had been there it was endless layoffs,
> >> downsizings, etc...
> >>
> >> Anyway they came in and chopped out 20% of the employees. Cost
> >> reduction. The separation package as they call it was not bad but the
> >> job market sucks. Bad as it was there (the place was full of H1B's -
> >> employees were a minority, you would think you were in India) it was
> >> still a paying job. The day before I went off payroll there was an
> >> email from my director saying there now going to offshore projects to
> >> get costs lower as there is pressure from the business to control
> >> costs.
> >>
> >> The location of course was India. Try this for rates and it will make
> >> your hair stand up. The Indian consulting company gets $15/hour for
> >> each body, the person (programmer, etc...) gets.....get ready (it
> >> shocked me) $3/HOUR! How are people here ever going to compete with
> >> that? IT in this country is doomed.
> >>
> >> I have 15 years of experience (I am old ) in a variety of
> >> technologies. MVS, UNIX, NT, programming (C, C++, Cobol & some Java)
> >> database administration (Oracle, DB2, IMS), system administration,
> >> networking, architecture... In my last position I was a systems
> >> infrastructure manager.
> >>
> >> Anyway I have sent out close to 300 resumes already and have only
> >> gotten a handful of responses. Its really tight. The H1B's have really
> >> tightened up the job market. I have been in this field for 15 years
> >> and have never ever seen it like this. Usually it might take you a
> >> month to find a job but I have been at it for 3 already. Starting to
> >> get scared...
> >>
> >> I am contemplating getting back into Oracle DBA work. I did it for a
> >> number of years and was offered an "opportunity". Got out of it. As
> >> part of severance package I got money for training (anything I want)
> >> that will cover taking ALL the current Oracle DBA training?
> >>
> >> How is the job market for Oracle DBA's? Is it tight?
> >>
> >> Reason I am asking is that some parts of the tech field are flooded
> >> with cheap labor. Are Oracle DBA's one of them?
> >>
> >> I would like to hear some opinions.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> John
> >
Received on Mon Apr 08 2002 - 17:20:10 CDT
