Phoenix.pm: Meeting 12/20/2001

[Scott Walters]

"Computer programmer unemployment officially 7.8%"

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Yep, things are mighty bad. 12 months ago it was 1.7% unemployment. But is this figure accurate? Are people (now unemployed) who learned some ASP programming to cash in on the gold rush considered "computer programmers" for the purposes of these figures?  

Just as a point of clarifty, the unemployment rate for people who didn't graduate high school- always the highest by education- is 8.1%(!)  Without doubt, no other "skilled" trade/profession has an unemployment rate even CLOSE to 7.8% right now. In constrast, the unemployment rate for college graduates is just 3.1%---- yet don't all of us know lots of people who have degrees and are jobless?

Reference for statistics:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011213S0024
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t03.htm
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Doug Miles wrote:

> Holiday Party social meeting!
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> We'll be having a Phoenix.pm meeting Thursday, December 20th at 7:00PM.
> It will be held at Bowne, which is located at 1500 N. Central Avenue,
> which is on the Southwest corner of Central and McDowell.  The parking
> lot is gated, so just press the button on the intercom, and tell the
> receptionist that you are there for the Perl meeting.  Park in the lot
> that is straight ahead from the entrance on the South side of McDowell.
> Park in any uncovered, non-reserved space.  Proceed to the main lobby,
> which is on the Northeast side of the parking lot.
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> We'll be having a "geek" white elephant gift exchange.  Bring any 
> hardware/computer paraphernalia (working or not) you'd like to unload on 
> some hapless victim.  Please wrap the gift (or at least put it in a box) 
> to increase the suspense. :)  If you don't want to participate, you 
> don't have to.  You just won't get to take home any new 
> useless^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H cool stuff. ;)
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> -- 
> - Doug
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> Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.
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