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Sunday, April 09, 2006

Picking a Major- Req. Blog

I am sure we have all have good reasons for choosing our major. Many of the reasons im sure many of us share. Assuming that we're all business majors, did we pick this major because there would be some type of job when we graduate? a way to make money? like working with people and or numbers?

In any case picking the right major is always a topic of discussion. Slashdot has a blog posting talking about Computer Science as a career and major. The opinion is raised that people are worrying too much. The IBM article is saying it is a myth that computer science jobs and engineering is being outsourced. It cannot be overlooked though that production effiency is increased and costs are cut in other places than the US. In my international business class the professor outsourced the creation of the class webpage for 1/3 of the cost of someone to do it here. I think it will eventually catch up with the united states and we may find ourselves falling behind in some places. We are doing the right thing by educating ourselves though. Maybe people are worrying too much but it never hurts to be aware of things going on around us.

1 Comments:

Blogger Alex said...

I also read that article, and was thinking about some of the issues it raises. outsourcing a class site, now that I had not heard of before! we will be looking at the outsourcing phenomena a little later in the course when we explore the "place" aspects of the marketing mix.

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