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Forum: Tech jobs can offer more than just high salaries
The New Haven Register ^ | June 19, 2017 | Kevin J. Conlan

Posted on 06/19/2017 11:39:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Ignatz

Be glad you have the blue-collar job.

I know of one individual who was “rejected by Target” for hourly work.


21 posted on 06/20/2017 6:24:51 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, it can also open up a whole slew of top secret government files.


22 posted on 06/20/2017 7:19:37 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: AppyPappy
Great!

Lots and lots of programming jobs but I moved into IT management. I am updating my software dev skills now and may go back to my roots as a software engineer or database architect.
23 posted on 06/20/2017 7:56:57 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In case any of you are visiting The Swamp on the 26th:

https://twitter.com/4us_workers/status/876991478136020993


24 posted on 06/20/2017 8:01:49 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: StolarStorm

Managers, project or otherwise, are a dime a dozen now. What’s needed is coding boots on the ground. Java has improved to the point where people are starting to convert COBOL to Java. Two things are needed: COBOL coders to read the code and Java coders to write the code.
One of the reasons for the HB1 need is that India still teaches COBOL.
I am the only person in the company that knows Oracle Forms, COBOL and Java. We have several people from India who know COBOL.


25 posted on 06/20/2017 8:07:27 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. Conlon has obviously never hear of H-1Bs or offshoring.


26 posted on 06/20/2017 8:14:32 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: AppyPappy

I know Cobol and have worked a bit with Java. I just need to refresh. I’m in the process of doing that and it’s fun. I’ve always been a dev/manager hybrid so I never lost my coding skills, but I can’t compete with those that have focused primarily on coding in recent years. Change is constant.


27 posted on 06/20/2017 8:17:16 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: thoughtomator

Yep, that’s my current plan.


28 posted on 06/20/2017 8:19:31 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Caipirabob

Cut it at its root, the 1965 Immigration Act. No sense in letting them bounce from one program to another.


29 posted on 06/20/2017 11:15:18 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: bobcat62

I consider it an answer to prayer!
But I continue to look for something in my field.


30 posted on 06/20/2017 12:30:26 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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