Outsource Your Job
July 5th, 2004 by Will
Heh! Now that’s funny!:
“About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid $67,000 for. He’s happy to have the work. I’m happy that I only have to work 90 minutes a day, talking code. My employer thinks I’m telecommuting. Now I’m considering getting a second job and doing the same thing.”
I don’t know though. I’m sure the world’s going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Who does what, where and for whom is going to keep bluring. And with the anticipated shrinking of the US labor pool in a few years, that’s probably a good thing in a lot of ways.
Still, I can’t help thinking that a lot of the outsourcing talk and fears is just hype. It’s like the SARS virus. It’s real, but in a way it seems like it’s not.
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