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Dan has a point, however, school teachers and police officers are also
experiencing similar situations due to poor economy. In St. Louis, many
police departments are in a hiring freeze, and those officers already
employed are seeing only 1 and 2 percent salary increases, or in some
cases, salary decreases. My brother is a police officer in a
medium-sized municipality and has been trying to get on in another
county for over a year, but there's a hiring freeze. My sister in law
was a school teacher who saw such a dramatic drop in salary this year
that child care cost more than she was being paid, so now she is a stay
home mom. It's not just tech writers who are seeing a drop in
employment due to a poor economy, offshoring, etc.
Anita Lewis
Project Manager
Three Rivers Systems, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Goldstein, Dan [mailto:DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:17 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: India
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:58 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: India
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Ultimately, "offshoring" will
self-limit, because the decline in domestic economy results
in the elimination of jobs everywhere...
</snip>
It's also limited by the number of jobs that *can* be sent overseas.
Factory workers and tech writers are more vulnerable than, say,
schoolteachers and police officers.
