[BC] Graveyard shifts for young DJs a thing of radio's past

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I was recently advised that as an engineer I should seek employment in India. I was presented with the following information:

The cost of living is low.

The ratio of wages to the cost of living is much higher in India than in the United States. A typical American engineer who lives and works in India may return to the United States after two years with over US$100,000 in savings.

Older professionals are respected and usually revered.

There is so much technical work available that it is unlikely that a professional will ever have to seek employment. Prospective employers continually try to attract employees from the competitive companies in India.

Many Indian companies provide housing which is comparable to American middle-income condominium living. They also have company-sponsored stores for items unlikely provided in local stores, such as meat, and chicken. Indians generally only eat fish and vegetables.

Most all professionals speak English, unlike America where one needs to learn Spanish to shop at stores or eat at McDonald's.

Both countries have 7/11 stores, but unlike the American ones, the Indian clerks speak English.

There are private clubs with inexpensive membership where liquor, and other American pastimes, is available. 

THEREFORE, with such a glowing reputation, why cannot American companies provide comparable compensation for their engineers instead of sending the technical work to India?

ANSWER: It is the ninety-day syndrome. Most American, publicly traded, companies work quarter-to-quarter to appease their stockholders as they play the stockholder-casino game. This means one must specify, hire to design, design, put into production, then fire the designers all within ninety days, this of course in impossible. Therefore, they job the work out to foreign companies so they can close the books on a project at ninety-day intervals.

These accounting methods are destroying the livelihood of American professionals.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

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From: "Glen Kippel" <glen.kippel at gmail.com>