[Sigia-l] education: being an IA

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"Chris Chandler" wrote:

> That being said, you may have good reasons to want to go back to school,
> and re-focusing your career by getting a degree in HCI or Information
> Studies (or lots of other related fields!) is a perfectly decent
> strategy.

I don't want to be an alarmist, but

"In IT alone, Gartner estimates that another 500,000 positions in the U.S.
may leave by the end of this year; in one scenario, as many as 25% of all IT
professional jobs could go overseas by 2008. If just 40% of those people
never find another job in their field, that could be more than 1 million
whose careers are altered forever."

<http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/81/offshore.html>

That's one out of every four IT jobs. Can IA and/or related jobs be
offshored? We had this discussion here a while ago. Some job categories that
were thought to be offshore-immune (as long as I'm coining buzzwords
today:-) turned out to be not so. Anyhow, something to think about before
morning coffee.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba