re: #461 Walter L. Newton

And now the overreaction in the other direction. In IT, companies are looking for someone who has skills in 10-15 different IT tools, platforms, hardware expertise and so on.

That’s exactly what I’ve been seeing. Dozens of specific software experience requirements. Not only the software but right down to the release version or year. It really angers me having started with pencil and pen which didn’t have “new releases” over a period of almost 100 years.

Now, we have to keep up with specific software in order to get some job in a cubicle? I’m using software at home that’s almost 9 years old and it does and I do more with that than your average office clone that is using the latest software that produces the same end result of working drawings.

That last point is moot at this point. No one needs any working drawings because no one is building anything. About the only ones that are getting work are the lucky few engineering firms that might be getting the few road building and infrastructure projects created by the “stimulus” funds.