A Job - A Career - New IT Social Work

When I ride bus and train to work, i have to travel almost 60 miles, i have to pass several business during my ride, most of them are small business. I wonder how are they managing their income/expense and tax and many things, as any one assumed everything manual. They are not IT or progressive haters, they are brilliant, risk taking and growth oriented hard working people. I can spot 50 business with in 60 miles of ride means how many small business are here at U.S.A. There would be millions, most of them are not IT enabled. I envisioned a global community, bunch of developers, working as team to solve these kind of small business using completely open source at nominal rate. It started 2-3 years ago but it didn't scale up because of several reasons, the main one would be greediness of some people and lack of project management and competition from big IT service companies.

Here we are now, global level IT market saturated at salary level, big companies like IBM, Accenture and TCS can't serve this small business, they are very interested in long term contracting with big companies. IT open source developers are quit their ambition of serving small business because they joined with some companies as full timers or consulting through big companies. The main reason for developers quitting is A) small business won't provide enough documentation B) there process is very tough and ambiguous because of prolong manual process C) they can't give very fancy work place and attractive rate.

The above reasons are just some excuse to avoid those small business, the main reason is one could not think through the process complete and lack of transformation knowledge of actual process to design to code. Here after this world can't silver spoon feed each and everything to developers, they may not get 300 page documents, they may not get a skeleton of code to fill up, they may not get release support etc. If you are a developer with more than 10 years of experience you have to know all "how to's" from processes to design to code to code migration to production server.

There are millions of small business looking for these kind of all-in-one developers to change their process. All we need is some social sense to help others and self-learning thrust. If we do this ,future of IT definitely provide endless chance to every body who are really a veteran developer.

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