Re: Question about opportunities for Americans outside the US

Intrusion Detector wrote:

>Bruno,

    Ok, maybe I'm a little glommy and, to put it nicely, pissed off that I was so stupid as to come back to Spain after working in the US. But what I see os that those two points mentioned abouve are not really close to reality in many countries though from the US it may look like they are. US expertise is no viable since it costs way too much and really gives the same that what you can find at home but for some really specialized fields in IT, maybe Security is one of them, but just in some real arcane and obscure areas that almost nobody in the whole world knows anything about.

    The problem is numbers, you got a lot of people attending school and if you get only 5% of them getting to the same level of an US proffesional (and that's really arguable) you got already more than you need.

    Let's put it this way, I got a MS in Software Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (not an Ivy league school, but...) back in 96, and I make 24,000 bucks (and housing is NOT cheap in Spain), got no cubicle, and the only real good thing about my job is that I can walk to it, it's just an ok job. I don't really see too many ways of changing this situation other than moving back to the US, Ireland, or England. Received on Tue Aug 5 12:33:21 2003