X-Message-Number: 945
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 92 21:15:53 EDT
From:  (Perry E. Metzger)
Subject: submission for cryonics

   from Bruce White 3807 <>

   > From:  (David Krieger)

   > The computer industry now has a negative unemployment rate, as jobs go
   > advertised and unfilled for months or years. 

   NOT!

   The computer industry as a whole is in a slump and as more
   aerospace companies continue to cut back, alot of software engineers
   will be out of work. Hughes announced a layoff of 9000 people yesterday.
   The software consulting arena in California is also very soft.

Depends where you are, Mr. White, and what you know. We can't find
enough qualified people here at Lehman, so we make due with what we
can find. We are always looking, and have been for a while. There is
such a shortage of Unix talent here on Wall Street that virtually not
a day goes by that I don't get a call from a headhunter.

By the way, the bulk of those 9000 people laid off were not, I assume,
software engineers. I doubt that Hughes ever had that many software
engineers.

Mainframe/Cobol types are having trouble finding work, but people with
good skill sets are in very short supply these days in certain fields,
especially as evidenced by what they are willing to pay us.

However, what does any of this have to do with cryonics?

[ Perry, I, too, was wondering how far this discussion would stray from
  cryonics.  I think that we can use this thread as a good exercise for us to
  see how well we can encourage sci.cryonics discussions to focus on cryonics.
  In sci.cryonics we won't have someone like me to add encouraging little
  comments like this at the end of messages.  What mechanisms will be useful?
  By the way, I noticed that the Luddites thread has moved to the
  Extropians mailing list, too. - KQB ]

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