contracting in great depression II

[sappatz]

no future for code monkeys

[OwlHoot]

not unless they're willing to work for peanuts

(corny I know, but increasingly true)

[PAH]

Code monkeys are the only ones that are safe.

Let's see the useless middle management produce a working system from some vague business requirements. Never going to happen, not a single line of code gets written in meetings.

[PAH]

Connect 4.

[Shimano105]

Same old sh1te bing peddled this time round I see.

I'd like to see the end of the gobsh1te BAs and the barra boyz of IT - testers!

(sorry mitch)

[VectraMan]

I think those of us who are good at patching holes in creaky old C++ apps will be in demand as plans to rewrite projects in the latest trendy language/platform/paradigm are put on hold. Boomed!

[MPwannadecentincome]

Code monkeys are the only ones that are safe.

Let's see the useless middle management produce a working system from some vague business requirements. Never going to happen, not a single line of code gets written in meetings.

Firstly, middle managers do not need to write code to produce a working system - they could outsource that.

Secondly, it depends on what the meeting is about.

Many of the meetings I run are specifically for the purpose of ensuring the RIGHT code is going to be written.

Of course this means keeping the meetings short, so that there is enough time left in the day for those lines of code to be written by the developers!

[Lockhouse]

Having survived contracting through both the 1990 & 2001 recessions my own experience is that people will always need coders. If you have a MOR coding language and some decent experience, are flexible on location and more importantly rate, then you should be able to keep the wolf from the door. It might mean you have to go a whole year without saving any money, but the reality is that most of us do pretty damn well out of contracting compared to Joe Public. It also goes without saying that one should have also build up a war chest during the good times, just in case - another thing that Joe Public usually can't do.

[BrilloPad]

But the original great depression of 1870 was renamed the long depression when the great depression came along.

Will we rename the great depression or find a new name for this one?

[Shimano105]

Seems that you lot are already talking up a depression and rate cuts before they actually happen. Saves the agency a job I s'pose.