H(ookers) 1 B

I know it's non-sense, but consulting jobs are no better than prostitution. Contractors are just like hookers.You must upgrade yourself to the latest technology every now and then to be in the business, like hookers who must maintain their bodies to be on demand. And then you have these so called Consulting firms, who try to market you for the clients, claiming that you can walk on the water as it comes to that particular technology. They are just like pimps, who market every hooker as the source of the best experience that one would ever come across.

And then comes the client, who does not want his employees to be bothered about all the effort that needs to be put on upgrading their skills. He does not want them to be troubled for working on critical things. He even feels that it's disgrace to his employees to work on these things. So, he wants an expert to do these disgraceful things, a contractor! He's just like some husbands, who know that their wives will not happy doing some disgraceful things for them and so they go get a hooker.

Their wives are like permenant employees in a firm, who never upgrade themselves, do not involve themselves in critical and sometimes disgraceful things needed to be done for their husband's pleasure and even then, get the official love of their husbands. And guess what, they do not even have a fear of losing their positions. But the contractors will be kicked out of the office after thier job is done.

Furthermore, to bring these two professions even further closer, the contractors even have the hourly billings! This hourly rate also depends upon the contractor's profile, just similar to a hooker's hourly rate depending on her profile. And guess what? A part of this rate goes to the Consulting firms, the brokers. Here the hookers are better than contractors while giving commission to the pimps, in the sense that they get the moeny directly into their hands and they take out the portion that should go to the pimp and hand it over to them.Poor contractors, they don't even have this facility. In their case, the Consultant firms grab the money from the client first and then give any left over money to contractors at the end.All the hard work was done by the contractor and yet his boss gets the money into his hands first.

Pathetic isn't it?

I know it doesn't make sense to compare H1B folks, who are respected by everyone back in India for earning in dollars, with hookers.

But thats the strange reality.

I hope people planning for H1B realize this. You don't have to hate this profession. But just realize what kind of shit you are gonna land into.

Cheers..