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No, I don't mean a method of preventing outsourcing, I mean a strategy for not finding that there is no work for me on account of all the work being done in India.
Get a gig that requires your physical prescence at the client sit for at least some of the time. Something that you can only do on the client site face to face.
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.
Find something niche, e.g. small bespoke services that require close contact for requirements gathering / analysis. Something small enough to not appear on the radar of the massive outsource / offshorers.
Get a gig that requires your physical prescence at the client sit for at least some of the time. Something that you can only do on the client site face to face.
Precisely! And make sure that the "client site" that you need to be at is defined by the presence of someone who makes the decision about what goes to India: you may be sure that his own job does not.
Find something niche, e.g. small bespoke services that require close contact for requirements gathering / analysis. Something small enough to not appear on the radar of the massive outsource / offshorers.
This also is a good plan. You do have to make sure that it's important enough not to be dispensed with in the course of the offwhoring. (I mean important to decision-makers and administrators, of course. Merely being important to the business is not good enough).
Doing trading floor IT. Until the traders go to Mumbai that is....
...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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