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September 02, 2005
A Book On Career Development
Scanning through the postings on blogs.sun.com, I came across a review, for My Job Went To India (And All I Got Was This Lousy Book), on Frederic Jean's weblog. Fred's review fired up my interest, so I took a look at the book's webpage, and after browsing the sample chapters, I bought the PDF and dead tree combo. I downloaded the PDF this evening. The physical book will be shipped to me at the end of September.
The book claims to be about what programmers should do to protect themselves from off-shoring. It is so much more than that: it is a very clear and concise book about career development for software professionals. Every page advice that would be useful even if your job wasn't in danger of being sent to India. In fact, programmers in Bangalore would get as much from the book as someone in the USA or Western Europe. There is advice on how to choose which technologies to learn. There is advice on how to develop programming skills. There is advice on how to market yourself. There is even advice on how to manage an off shore team (surprisingly). All the advice is insightful and delivered clearly and briefly. If you are a programmer then My Job Went To India (And All I Got Was This Lousy Book) deserves to be on your bookshelf (when the physical book is actually ready, that is).
Posted by JohnC at September 2, 2005 11:15 PM