job satisfaction and other stuff....

tinman on 2002-05-20T06:02:55

I was at the wedding of one of my close friend's brother last evening, and I met a lot of people that I hadn't seen since graduation (wow, almost two years ago)...

There seemed to be a couple of things in common with a lot of us: people were unhappy with the places that they were working in and they had no other place to go..Considering that nearly 90% of our batch got absorbed into the local software outsourcing giant, its not really surprising, I guess... Those folk had their pay cut by 20%, and now, even though the fortunes of the company have turned around dramatically in the last few months, their pay is pretty much static with no chances for a revision any time soon...

Add to that a whole host of new graduates who are sans job at the moment (the campuses are churning out CS graduates at a fair rate these days), and you have a market which has overwhelming supply but no demand...Fortunately, the bigger guys are still surviving, and I moved to one such about 6 months ago... but its depressing, we had just graduated when the dot-com bubble burst and I spent the first year working at a dying dot-com.. (not an experience I recommend to anyone).. We *definitely* missed the dot-com gravy train... (waaaah ;)

Hmmm, well, after that rant about the job situation (which is hardly going to be a surprise to anyone, I know), I found a few awesome tools last week...