Communications of the ACM
Is Your Future in It a Job in the Boonies?
Struggling to find a job in IT in and around your home city or suburb? Consider a move to Jonesboro, AR, Sebeka, MN, or Macon, MO. These locales might not jump out as being hotbeds of technology development or home to a large number of businesses or government agencies. But they are places where a growing number of technology workers are settling in order to find jobs in their field.
The source of these jobs is rural outsourcing companies, "onshore" IT service providers that market their offerings to clients as an alternative to offshoring or keeping IT functions in-house. Because some or all of their facilities are located in lower-cost areas in the United States, these companies can keep fees relatively low for their clients. And these options appear to be growing.
Working in a rural area could mean significant lifestyle changes, however. And though the cost of, for example, real estate and health insurance premiums will likely be lower, not everything is less expensive. The lower salary that comes with a rural IT job could mean having to make sacrifices.
From InfoWorld
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