Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:

> > That is you? Considering the way you post about law, IT, and economics, I
> > thought you were the Kevin Wayne Williams who was vice president of a
> > certain US based firm with employees in India.
> >
> > So you are doing that and studying to be an attorney? Is the legal degree
> > for fun?
> >
> It's me.

I do get surprised how many people have the same name online.

> I managed to help the company turn into a design services firm
> with an acquisition in mind, and it came to pass: Conexant bought
> Paxonet. Conexant already has a VP of Marketing, and has no need for
> another. My next job exploded, and I spent six months unemployed. My
> wife had already spent 2 years unemployed.

I will be at least two years unemployed, without time to get a part time job
even during "breaks", I'm told.

> Law school was going well (I
> was second in my class), but no fun at all. Paying tuition and mortgage
> was just a slow race between bankruptcy and getting a degree in a
> profession that I really didn't want to be in. Quit school, savaged a
> retirement account, sold a house, emigrated, bought a hotel, and here I am.

Damn. That's quite a change.

So did you see your own job get outsourced, or did you lose interest in the
industry?