India Seeks to Become World’s Back-Office:

They are part of an emerging workforce for India’s latest export offering — IT-enabled services.
These include tele-marketing, helpdesk support, medical transcription, back-office accounting, payroll management, maintaining legal databases, insurance claim and credit card processing, animation, and higher-end engineering design — all of which can be delivered by phones, computers and the Internet.

I have long wanted to either (a) be a writer, or, (b) go back to school. However, the sweet and milky teat that is the US IT job market has long since halted my move to grub street. In the upcoming years — or, perhaps, decades (though it hardly matters) — our little friend globalization might just swipe those voluptuous titties from me, though. I’ll find myself walking in a daze with the same unemployment box of whacky desk stuff as my father’s generation of IBM company-men did. Which is to say: if my job can be done cheaper by programmers in India, I’m fucked.

Joe CEO certainly isn’t gonna give a shit about me once he finds out the q4 books are gonna look better if we fire all those $60k+ programmers and hire dirt-cheap labor somewhere else. That is the kind of compassion my tender years in the work force has taught me to expect from the Holy Free Market: employees are just more debt on the books. They’re to be gotten rid of as soon as possible.

All this is probably brought on by reading Letters to a Young Contrarian
in one quick setting; a book you, you, and that other person who reads this little log should read…if only to see how much the afore mentioned teats might have changed you.