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發表於 2006-7-9 12:38 AM
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troubleHK: people from different generations face different competitions. Just about 10 years ago the Internet was commercialized, which speeds up globalizations as many industries face new competitiors they would never imagine before. In the past accounting must be done locally, but now a US or Hong Kong firm's payroll can be handled by an outsourced firm in India. Customer Service jobs are hit hard too - remember you used to call someone in Hong Kong locally to retrieve your message? Very soon all those jobs were moved to China. How about programming job? In the dot-com era people rushed to learn IT and thought programmers make good $? After they spent 3-4 years in school, they soon realized someone in India, China, or Eastern Europe can do as good a job as those high paying programmers in the US or Hong Kong.
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; y b0 c$ ]) @/ W4 R6 N) r' L% `So unless you work in the service industries that provide in-person service that requires immediate consumption, your job is not safe. Jobs like chefs, barbers, retail sales, drivers can never be outsourced. Or else, you face the same issue like most people -- you need to constantly update and upgrade your skills and watch out for competitions. Before 97 you were good enough with only Cantonese and English skills, now you also need to know Mandarin. In the past small accounting firms could have small business clients doing their books, now these clients may simply use packaged accounting software and these accounting firms thus lost their business. G; O- {! Z- L3 [3 \
! w1 `7 i8 S% F) F6 L; CIt may sound scary to you that few few jobs are safe nowadays, but that's just the truth and you must find a way to accommodate and deal with it. Hope this doesn't sound too sad to you. |
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