OC Weekly has an interesting article about day laborers, those guys you see in front of Home Depot. Their days consist of standing on street corners and waiting for work. When a car pulls up, everyone runs to it as fast as he can. A few lucky guys get picked to work and make some money that day.

If the tech job market doesn\’t pick up, this is what it\’s gonna be like for computer science majors. I can just imagine a bunch of computer geeks standing in front of CompUSA in their white shirts and black ties. And when a car pulls up you hear the geeks yelling \”You need a programmer? I know C++ and Java!\” \”I know Perl and XML!\” \”I\’m an MCSE!\”