This sort of thing has been happening in North Dakota for years. My own small community has seen several businesses move through. Most have been hear for years and have proven to be to additions to the community, a couple have been less than good. We had one leave town suddenly leaving many employees unpaid. But that was a start-up run by a couple of locals.
For the most part, this trend has been good for states like North Dakota. We get an influx of decent-paying jobs (with good benefits) at all levels (entry up to management) and the corporations get a cheaper labor force then they’d find in most cities.
A win-win, all the way around.
Rob - 06:02pm on 02/23/2006
I wonder if any of the Democrats in the Maryland state legislature has read this? Naw… that would make too much sense, and the multi-syllabic words would likely stop ‘em cold.
Bat One - 07:02pm on 02/23/2006
I’m based here in Northern Virginia right next to Fairfax and let me tell you the market is *super* tight. I run a small PHP software shop specializing in Open Source mostly in a handful of commercial sectors and it’s a pain to find anyone other than junior people who couldn’t write a line of code to save their lives.
Then if you look into the sysadmin side of things, it’s even worse. I’ve had a number of customers beg me to take on their work because they’ve been looking for months without any serious hits. Some of them are willing to train a junior person to get them up to speed, but the rest want someone who can hit the ground running.... I end up having to turn down about 1-2 projects/week that fit what we do but I simply don’t have the time and people.
caseydk - 04:02am on 02/24/2006
Here in West PA there are many small IT operations. The computer service company we use, people here have seen me refer to them as Da Geek and Little Sister, are a perfect example. Both worked for corporations which downsized and instead of moving to other states started their own company. They have more work than they can do, and have started headhunting at local community colleges and highschools. There are several graphic arts&design companies and light manufacturing within100 miles of Pittsburgh. Curiously enough companies are fleeing Pittsburgh and Alleghany county as fast as they can relocate. I wonder why{wink,wink}?
This sort of thing has been happening in North Dakota for years. My own small community has seen several businesses move through. Most have been hear for years and have proven to be to additions to the community, a couple have been less than good. We had one leave town suddenly leaving many employees unpaid. But that was a start-up run by a couple of locals.
For the most part, this trend has been good for states like North Dakota. We get an influx of decent-paying jobs (with good benefits) at all levels (entry up to management) and the corporations get a cheaper labor force then they’d find in most cities.
A win-win, all the way around.
I wonder if any of the Democrats in the Maryland state legislature has read this? Naw… that would make too much sense, and the multi-syllabic words would likely stop ‘em cold.
I’m based here in Northern Virginia right next to Fairfax and let me tell you the market is *super* tight. I run a small PHP software shop specializing in Open Source mostly in a handful of commercial sectors and it’s a pain to find anyone other than junior people who couldn’t write a line of code to save their lives.
Then if you look into the sysadmin side of things, it’s even worse. I’ve had a number of customers beg me to take on their work because they’ve been looking for months without any serious hits. Some of them are willing to train a junior person to get them up to speed, but the rest want someone who can hit the ground running.... I end up having to turn down about 1-2 projects/week that fit what we do but I simply don’t have the time and people.
Here in West PA there are many small IT operations. The computer service company we use, people here have seen me refer to them as Da Geek and Little Sister, are a perfect example. Both worked for corporations which downsized and instead of moving to other states started their own company. They have more work than they can do, and have started headhunting at local community colleges and highschools. There are several graphic arts&design companies and light manufacturing within100 miles of Pittsburgh. Curiously enough companies are fleeing Pittsburgh and Alleghany county as fast as they can relocate. I wonder why{wink,wink}?