by Sixstrings » Wed 14 Jan 2009, 20:14:53
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') was thinking more of highly educated Engineers, Professors, Medical people etc. not telemarketers.
It's easy to look with disdain on phone-work jobs. But, alas, not every person in North America can find work as a professor, physician, or engineer.
In the old days, folks went to places in person to get their business handled. Nowadays, this sort of common everyday business is all done over the phone. Clerks have moved from local branch offices to centralized call centers.
So I agree, these aren't dream jobs. But they're a big chunk of all we have left in the way of non-professional jobs. When the last of these jobs has gone to India, what will we have left? We don't manufacture anymore. I suppose folks could go to radiology school, but I hear Indians are starting to use the Internet to examine our x-rays, so there goes that.