Even though the whole world is experiencing a warmer winter this year, Hong Kong IT industry seems having a bitter cold winter. HSBC had laid off a large number of IT staff right before the Chinese New Year, which will probably further influence other professionals from the same field such as the overall income level.
The corporation cannot not guarantee if they will further downsize any of the supporting departments.
It is very pathetic that IT was one of the hottest subjects in University ten years ago, and Richard Li was an icon and a remarkable legend at that moment – elite school educated, young, wealthy and most important – an I.T. guy. The public obsessed to his everything including his dressing code and hair style.
The world is really flat. This is not a problem of Hong Kong education system; it just proves that globalization does affect everyone, even those highly educated professional workforce like us.
The message take out from this news is, never force your kids to take any subject you think it is good for him/ her. Let them choose what they are interested in. There is no guarantee that students from which subjects can get big bucks and which will end up unemployed. You can offer comment to them but do not force them to follow your wish; everyone gets the right to walk the life as they wish. You can never tell how the world will change anytime.
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1 comment:
Programmer in HK is no longer a knowledge worker, they just like a a sort of labour, very easy being replaced. Just like swing labour and electronics labour about 20 yr ago in HK. Coding work can be very easy to outsourcing without geographic limitation, that means it is more easy and fast compare to ordinary labour works and there are no transportation cost.
Jeff.
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