Here in the oil patch If you have a degree in petroleum engineering, petroleum geology or petroleum land management and augment it with an internship you are pretty much guaranteed a job after graduation paying up to $100k.
Here in the oil patch If you have a degree in petroleum engineering, petroleum geology or petroleum land management and augment it with an internship you are pretty much guaranteed a job after graduation paying up to $100k.
Here outside the oil patch if you are a high school dropout but can program in Java, C++, C# or any other popular computer language, which most 16 year olds can do, you can make over $100k.
“Here in the oil patch If you have a degree in petroleum engineering, petroleum geology or petroleum land management and augment it with an internship you are pretty much guaranteed a job after graduation paying up to $100k.”
Patch being located where?
Many of us went to school for lucrative degrees; once you can command $50K forces are at work to either send the work elsewhere (which wouldn’t apply in the oil patch) or simply bring foreigners in to do it (even if they are educated here as part of the package). In any case, what happened in tech and finance is surely at work in other high-wage jobs; Asians are being trained to do the work for a lot less, often in American universities. I work with one of the larger CPA firms, and of the four people I deal with the partner is the only American. One is Indian, one is Filipino (he said he was recruited from the Philippines for $65K, with no CPA and limited English - better-qualified Americans would kill for that job), and the last is a Canadian national who said the process took her five years to work here. All three of these foreigners took jobs for which there is no shortage of qualified Americans, and their company is probably looking for ways to replace them as soon as they become full citizens and want such things as sick days and Sundays off.
It is frightening; I couldn’t imagine what decisions a fifteen year-old faces today.