So Dice.com seems to think the tech scene is exploding in San Diego! How is the current job market in your eyes? (contractors)

[RockhetHD]

So Dice.com seems to think the tech scene is exploding in San Diego! How is the current job market in your eyes?

[shmoov_groovzsd]

Exploding? For the consumer sector, military or business sector? Consumer blows right now and I dont see that getting better any time soon. Military is having some rough patches due to budget cuts.

Where were they talking about? Source the link.

[RockhetHD]

dicenews's Channel - YouTube

[shmoov_groovzsd]

Just saw that video. I hope the guy is right in saying that there are 8k jobs available and the median income for tech jobs is 94k annual.

Green tech I can see ramping up. Solar is getting massive out east towards to the desert areas. This is a good industry to start cutting your teeth in and getting in on the ground level. Once things pick up over the next decade, this will be a tremendous industry as costs to own solar come down at the consumer level.

For cellular, all I am seeing any kind of boost is in M2M stuff but its still pretty small and not even a fraction of the 8k openings this guy was talking about.

Contractors rule right now. I still dont seen companies hiring direct for some positions.

[futbol]

Originally Posted by shmoov_groovzsd

Just saw that video. I hope the guy is right in saying that there are 8k jobs available and the median income for tech jobs is 94k annual.

Green tech I can see ramping up. Solar is getting massive out east towards to the desert areas. This is a good industry to start cutting your teeth in and getting in on the ground level. Once things pick up over the next decade, this will be a tremendous industry as costs to own solar come down at the consumer level.

For cellular, all I am seeing any kind of boost is in M2M stuff but its still pretty small and not even a fraction of the 8k openings this guy was talking about.

Contractors rule right now. I still dont seen companies hiring direct for some positions.

That's what I'm seeing, too, and recruiters are also saying that around 60+% of the positions available (at least in my field of tech) are contract or contract-to-hire.

[NYSD1995]

Tech in San Diego is dominated by contract work.

[oddstray]

My guess is he's seeing headlines like this: Northrop to add 100 workers to 'robo-helicopter' program | SignOnSanDiego.com but is unaware of, or is disregarding the fact there are still many unemployed engineers from when the recession hit.

[NYSD1995]

Defense biz loves contractors almost as much as Corporate America does - easy to hire, easy to fire.

SF Bay area tech job market is on fire. San Diego, nope, not now, not before, not ever. The 90's are over, corporate IT is done, and the wars are over, so that means defense spending has to wind down. Hey there's always bioinformatics (sucking wind with no capital) and handset dev (which the Chinese now own), easy fields for a 40+ year old engineer to get into, right? :/

Remember in the 90's when information systems was supposed to be the future of this country? Too bad that didn't work out so great. If the city and state had half a brain they would incentivise the heck out of green tech. But they don't, and therefore, won't.