Look, it's a shrinking margin business, in which two companies with shrinking revenues combined to compete with the Indian giants for what's left of the business. Both CSC and HPES were in the IT Outsourcing world, and made a lot of money from 1995 to about 2005. The Cloud, Indian competitors US and EU companies created chasing better margins, Bot and Mobile technologies are turning IT Data Centers into lights-out facilities that need only a handful of people to run. The quickest way to profit growth is shedding people just ahead of them becoming redundant. I may be on the list too, but am scrambling to move my nascent, long ignored NextGen services business and team into the sweet spot of the new company. Basically moving to higher ground with hope that the waters will recede before reaching us. I am in my late 50's so only need to do this dance a few years more. If you are in your 30's or 40's, pick up the Coursera, EdX, or other courses and get the certificates around Industrial Machine Learning, AI, and Data Science. Those jobs are still paying crazy wages with need exceeding supply, and what you needed for your Comp Sci degree gave you the skills for these newer disciplines. If you are in your 20's, look at part time tech school courses with hands on around Additive Manufacturing and Robotics. If you are thinking about going back to school, look at Materials Science & Engineering (MatSE), where the schools are way behind the curve in meeting needs of Metallurgy, Ceramics, Nano Technology, & Polymers companies. A Bachelors degree starts at nearly $80,000 and rises pretty quickly with experience gained through well paid internships available by the boatload during summers.
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