[TriLUG] Career planning - certs(?)

[Dwain Sims]

bak wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Steve 
> Litt wrote:
>> On Thursday 25 September 2008 09:02:15 pm wejii at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> The RTP market is tough now.  You may be competing against people with
>>> Master's degrees ( no exaggeration ).  Go to South Dakota and you 
>>> might be
>>> employed within a week.  It's not impossible here,  just more 
>>> difficult.
>>>     
>>
>> Is there something about South Dakota I don't know? I thought the 
>> Triangle area, Boston, Texas and California were THE places to be 
>> employed as a programmer. I've never heard that said about South 
>> Dakota before.
> Only that you can't *get* people to move to South Dakota to take your 
> programming job because who would want to?  If you could find a place 
> you actually wanted to work in an area like that and you knew your 
> stuff I'm sure it'd be simple to find a job.
>
> I do actually know a couple folks that do like this sort of thing, 
> because they can make 10 or 15% less than they would here and move to 
> a place where the cost of living is 40% lower in the middle of nowhere.
>
> But IMO they're nuts. I *love* the Triangle area.
>
>
> --bak
>
> </div>
>
Of course folks in the the Bay Area / Silicon Valley say exactly the 
same thing about the Triangle, and the ratios are similar.  But I find 
the overall quality of life better here.  Its a much better place to 
raise a family.

Dwain Sims
Ex-Milpitas guy.....