Posted on 03/05/2017 8:28:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A California university just fired all of its IT personnel to hire all foreign workers. I don’t begrudge a company for wanting to earn a profit, but in the case where the hypocrisy runs deep, then I object. Disney let go of all of its IT workers but before they let them go they had to train the foreigner workers or they received no severance pay or recommendations. Its not the pay that gets me, its the fact that the H1-B visa program is being exploited at the expense of US citizens who must live and work in this country. I know a company who rotated personnel in a position every two years. They were based out of Bangalore. It was not uncommon for an individual to come off the plane work for a month then head home for six months to get married then come back to the same job.
I doubt if I spent $1,000 on my degree. I tested out.
I have a neighbor with 4 college bound...he would be very interested to spend $1000 (well $1000 in 2017 dollars) and test out.
Here are some examples:
http://www.tesu.edu/degree-completion/Testing.cfm
http://www.tesu.edu/tuition/how-much.cfm
LAW on a 4-year degree!
Who knew?
My oh my, how things have changed since my day.
/s
H1-B Visa is a ban on citizenship for all STEM degrees. Engineering degrees are money losers for many because managers are US citizens but demand foreigners beneath.
75% of Silicon Valley are foreigners.
Now how much is your child’s tech degree worth when the industry demands foreigners??
The visa problem starts long before H-1b Visas are awarded. It starts freshman year in college—unlike H-1B Visas which have caps on the number awarded annually, with student visas, there are no caps on the number of student visas awarded.
Also, there are internship incentives for keeping those foreign student here as newly graduated workers that make it more attractive for companies like google to hire foreign students right out of school than hiring US students. Those internships can last a couple years.
The internship factor with unlimited student visas creates a bottleneck when the foreign newly graduated interns have to switch to the limited H-1b Visa program after a couple years. This creates a foreign student retention problem for tech companies...This is a major reason why all the tech companies have been fiercely lobbying to get the H-1b caps increased—so they can keep the foreign students they hired right out of school on student interneships as employees on H-1b Visas...all the while paying them less as many of them are the equivalent of twenty-first century indentured servants.
I hope some enterprising journalist or writer will blow the lid sky high on this outrageous scam.
University of Illinois actually sends recruiters to China to recruit students. It’s nickname is University of China... The university, a STATE school, is taxpayer supported, yet Illinois taxpayers are finding it increasingly difficult to send their students there.
My son, a computer engineer who works in San Jose, has suggested that US students interested in STEM/computers focus on hardware and firmware as many of the foreign training programs don’t have the resources to purchase current top quality hardware like US schools can purchase. date hardware.
If I had a student looking for a major, I would be likely be suggesting a major that would prepare for a career in Big Data in private sector. I think there is huge demand there, and it is not going down anywhere soon.
Thanks...will pass along.
The schools my kids went to required a certain number of hours taken at the University to graduate and a limit on placement testing/CLEP testing...They were able to take AP courses in HS though that helped reduce their required general ed courses.
Even tho they went to state schools, their degrees were not cheap even with scholarships, however, they are all gainfully employed in their fields and doing well—at least for now.
I just know it has to be hard for my neighbor with 4—and I know he has been saving, his kids are good students, one is going to community college for first 2 years, one likely to get wrestling scholarship, etc. Anything I can pass along will be appreciated.
On Tucker Carlson, I saw a guy with a new program called AXIS—it is a program with companies hiring students into internships with no college...students get paid and they have a 98% placement rate. it looked interesting, and I am going to share that idea too...
Thanks again.
Good ol' Psychology right at the bottom.
When I was in college, all the highest GPAs on the Deans List were always the Psych majors.
Everybody knew it was a sham degree.
Another route is the GI Bill, of course.
Plenty of unemployed engineers in Houston.
True...however, 2 of neighbor’s kids might not be eligible even if they wanted to serve, though I am sure dad would feel better having kids in military with our new CIC :)
One currently at community college probably would not make it thru med qualification as she has had Non-Hodgkin lymphoma twice!!! Pretty unbelievable to have it twice! She has been well for 2 or 3 years now, but I am sure that would raise some eyebrows on a DOD medical information form. One of mine was disqualified from academy because of a recent back injury from a car accident.
Another of neighbor’s kids, a junior in high school, was hospitalized last fall for some sort of severe colitis...I mean major issues; in hospital for several days and docs could not stop pain, he could not eat etc...major concerns! His condition is now manageable but somewhat chronic...
Anyway, we often talk about college stuff as I have had 3 that have seen light at the end of tunnel, so I will gladly pass along the information you have shared.
Saving this. Thanks for posting it all!
Regulations prohibiting testing of potential hires for a position is also what caused so many employers to just put “college degree” as a requirement. That reinforced “you gotta get a degree to get a decent job”.
A degree simply gets you into a corporation. It is then up to you to demonstrate your intelligence and worth to the corporation. My final salary after 37 years in mechanical engineering field was 14 times bigger than my starting salary.
My Graphic Design degree (2 year degree at that) has served me well over the years.
Why isn’t the MRS. degree listed?
That is about $78K in today dollars. I suspect that is near the going rate for nontenured chemists at the local university in flyover country. Might even be a bit high.
I agree with you that it’s what you do with your degree that matters. My daughter attends a catholic high school and the staff there seems very happy. I have had conversations with a couple of teachers and they loved teaching there and want to retire at the school. Money is not everything!
My niece decided that she should be a school psychologist. She majored in psychology, went to grad school for 3 years, passed the nationwide exam, and now makes about $80K in her 6th year on the job.
The big thing is the grad school and the exam. The national organization deliberately made the test very difficult, to prevent large numbers of people from passing. Their plan worked, and there is a shortage of certified people so salaries are high.
Hmmmm. I don’t see “gender studies” on that list.
Any major with “studies” in the name is likely to be worthless.
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