Most likely the title of the thread is the name of the company. People who start a thread using company's name does not attract interest because people who had no info to give on that company will just skip your thread as they had nothing to offer.

If it is not too late you can post the comparisons here.

You think I have a crystal ball to see the future or something? Fortunately I do have one. I had a glimpse into the future and this is what I saw.

Semiconductor is not likely to change in the years to come. It is all about getting double capacity for a given size or cutting size to half while maintaining capacity. Skill set for design and testing this remains the same.

Telco was faced with a saturated market. Even now everyone owns a mobile phone already. The competition pushed some smaller players out of the playing field. My crystal ball did not show clearly which telco die or survived. Good Management Trainees at telcos managed to find jobs elsewhere as management jobs fit all industries. The pay is not fantastic as this is a very general skill.

Oil & Gas industry started to face their sunset as the oil wells dried up. O&G players foresaw this day and had long diverted their business into other areas. Those high paying technical experts starts to switch profession as the demand for their services fades gradually.

Unfortunately, I must warn you that my crystal ball is not always accurate

This post has been edited by faceless: Apr 30 2012, 08:59 AM

The more you look at crystal balls the more inaccurate it becomes. So, you need to apply your own analysis.

1) No comments. Perhaps you should look at history now. It is all a question of how well connected a company is and its political interest.

2) The amount of equipment and R&D invested in O&G is nothing compared to the wages of engineers. Until a better source of energy is found why lay the existing facilities to waste? Would it not make better to sense to continue with it and make a switch when the alternative becomes available? By the way did you know when and why petrol station started integrating a convenience store into this operation?

3) Look into history again. The time of diodes and transistors was short live due to its inefficiencies. When the super efficient chips came it stayed much longer. It seems to me that instead of thinking out a better solution people are more inclined to develop and improve the existing.

It was develop in the mid 90s. At that moment they calculated that oil will run dry by 2050. One company tried to look at supermarket business as an alternative to diversified their business into. So they figured they can start off as convenience store in their own kiosk. Others just followed.