Any money in programing ?
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Feb 01, 2005
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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