any It jobs in boston area (insurance, job market, living)

[donlookingforplace]

Are there any IT jobs (preferably SQL DBA jobs) in Boston/surrounding areas? I am currently in southern california area and doing my homework with researching about Boston area.

Thanks,
Don

[Rich6896]

There are plenty of IT jobs in Boston (IE EMC) you just have to do those jobs in India.

[donlookingforplace]

I didnt get you Rich.. Can you please explain..

[Ozzie1]

Originally Posted by donlookingforplace

I didnt get you Rich.. Can you please explain..

He's saying all of the Boston IT jobs have been "outsourced".

[donlookingforplace]

ahh ok.. Well the advantage with being a DBA is that most of the data centers for the companies are still here in US. they cannot be oursourced ( at least it will be ages before other countries ramp up their infrastructure). And they simply cannot have an offshore DBA logging into servers here.

[seldomseen]

The IT job market in Boston is decent, depending on the skills-sets you have. Boston's IT market isn't as solid many of the other IT hot beds.

[donlookingforplace]

I hear there are many insurance/financial companies in boston? My wife is a CPA and I am IT (SQL Server DBA). How are the chances of both of us finding jobs? I have never been to that part of the country. The northern most point was richmond . I am still researching between RTP (North Carolina) and Boston. Weather is not much of a problem. If the job market is good I think we can survive the weather just like the rest of the folks living there. I think having a job is important for anything we (want to) do.