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February 17, 2006
Japanese IT Workers, Where Are You?
Apparently you're all staying in Japan.
Now granted, western Michigan isn't exactly the hottest destination for, well, any IT people, but it's getting a little ridiculous. Last fall I took courses at Grand Valley State, a local university. We had students from a number of different countries in the master's program--China, India, Croatia, Ghana--but no Japanese IT students. I know that the school had some students from Japan, but none in the IT master's program.
Now I'm working at the Lansing (state capital) office of a large worldwide IT corporation. I have coworkers from several different countries: India, China, Russia, and some have names and accents I can't yet place, but no one comes from Japan. If I wanted, I could practice Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Gujarati, and several other languages but no: I'm learning Japanese, and have no Japanese coworkers.
On the other hand, in the last 24 hours here we've had snow, rain, thunder, hail, an ice storm, and now the temperature is on its way down to the sub-zero range for the weekend. Maybe I shouldn't expect to see any Japanese IT coworkers here any time soon.
Permalink | Posted by Joe at February 17, 2006 02:16 PM