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The thing that bothers me is not so much that technical and implementation work goes straight to India and manufacturing goes to China, Mexico, etc.

The thing that bothers me is that there's so many goddamn "project management professionals" state-side. It's like now students are coming out of college and going straight into project management doing bullshit work. American industry is in a downward spiral, we're training our competitors. These "low-cost-centers" are going to eat our lunch at some point in the future. They will be lean, efficient, creative, business savvy, and ready for anything. In the United states we'll all just be a bunch of useless PM's and supply chain specialists who can barely do more than work a phone. It will be like taking candy from a baby. Of course the execs that forced all this will be retired and living filthy rich by then.



Ha, I have a MIS BA actually. Most of my former classmates took the PM/BA route post graduation and generally all are successful according to Linkedin including a guy who runs his own investment bank and another pretty high up at Amazon apparently. I think so many people go that route because people who can "speak tech" and "speak business" are incredibly valuable now days. At least that's the reasoning that sold me on it, despite me now being almost completely technical. I have personally seen individuals on the same team with similar skills have careers diverge dramatically because one person could present in front of a room and another couldn't. The PM types are on the front lines and get all the credit because they are "selling" the product or business. I get why it's attractive to some.




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