Posted by lawrence k on 05/22/06 07:16

wehat@sayyou.net wrote:
> In article <1148169929.680586.213140@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> lkrubner@geocities.com says...
> > Actually, contrary to what I just wrote, its possible that all the PHP
> > work is going overseas. That's the opinion of Shelley Powers. Few
> > people in the world know as much about WordPress as she does (or RDF,
> > or Javascript, etc). In this blog post she insisted that in her part of
> > the country (Mississouri) there was no PHP work at all:
> >
> > http://weblog.burningbird.net/2006/04/30/dabble/
> >
> > In the comments I asked her if she meant "none" in an absolute sense,
> > or simply "none that pays enough that I'd be interested". She insisted
> > that she meant none at all, in an absolute sense. She feels that all
> > the PHP work has been outsourced to other countries.
> >
> >
>
> Why do you even think there is such a thing as a "PHP job" ?
> Its like saying to a car mechanic, "How proficient do you have to be with
> a socket wrench to be a car mechanic?"

Many car mechanics specialize. Some only work on domestic cars. Some
specialize on German cars. I know one who only works on Volvos. I also
know some who specialize in rebuilding engines.

Now, if you had a Volvo, or if you needed the engine of your car
rebuilt, who would you prefer? The specialist or the generalist?

Likewise, we can talk about specialties when we talk about programmers
- enccryption, web development, J2EE, a scripting language, etc.

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