Any money in programing ?
I live in San Francisco, California, USA. Fourty miles North of the famed
Silicon Valley.
Home of:
Adobe Systems
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Apple Corporation
Cisco Systems
Hewlett Packard Corporation
Hitachi Data Systems
IBM Corporation
Intel Corporation
Inprise (formally Borland International, Inc.)
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Netscape Communications, Inc.
Novell Inc.
Sun Microsystems
Symantec Corporation and many others.
Before the DOT COM boom of the late ninties a studio apartment in S.F. averaged
$500
per month. After the DOT COM boom (and the success of the Nash Bridges TV show).
Studio rents sored to $1500 per month.
And then the bubble burst. Programers were scrambling for assistant manager
positions at
McDonalds. Bars and resturants closed down. Store and apartment vacancies
were abundant.
Today studios average about $800 a month (still too much).
The DOT COM boom devistated the econemy of S.F. We still have not recovered 4
years later.
Many programers that I knew left the area ,are doing something else, or are
homeless.
So my question is where is the money in programming?
Don Cole
SF
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