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To: RebelDawg
I saw this coming back when the news broke about all the tech jobs being shipped offshore. When we ship high-paying technical jobs offshore, what do we tell our kids to study in college in order for them to get a good job with a stable career when they get out of college?

This is one of those times I hate to be right, but I foresaw the damage that would occur if we allowed these jobs to leave the US. When we don't have high-paying, high-tech jobs to offer our kids, those departments in the colleges and universitires begain to feel the pinch and will eventually close.

We really need to re-think the policy of shipping our best jobs offshore. After all, there are only so many jobs available that come with the phrase "You want fries with that?"
12 posted on 01/21/2004 6:18:00 AM PST by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: DustyMoment
When we ship high-paying technical jobs offshore, what do we tell our kids to study in college in order for them to get a good job with a stable career when they get out of college?

Political science and law. Things nescessary to rise 6to the top in government employment.

26 posted on 01/21/2004 6:43:54 AM PST by templar
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To: DustyMoment
"I saw this coming back when the news broke about all the tech jobs being shipped offshore. When we ship high-paying technical jobs offshore,... "

No one is shipping the jobs offshore. The demand for the services is being met by capable folks charging less. There is no real connection of pay with job duty. The pay scale is based on supply and demand. These are things a student in HS should learn. If they're in college they shouldn't graduate if they don't know and understand it.

"what do we tell our kids to study in college in order for them to get a good job with a stable career when they get out of college?"

College should be a place where students learn how to think, do and operate in the world. It's not a place to learn fixed job skills to exist in some theoretical high paying niche forever. I don't see the point in spending all that money on college when the students expect other folks to provide them with high paying niches. The point of going to college is to enable the student to creat those niches for himself.

" I foresaw the damage that would occur if we allowed these jobs to leave the US.

There's nothing more damaging to Freedom than an artificially planned economy to protect adults that have recieved significant monies that supposedly were spent to enable them to operate in a free enterprise system.

" When we don't have high-paying, high-tech jobs to offer our kids, those departments in the colleges and universitires begain to feel the pinch and will eventually close."

Who is this we that is supposed to provide for the perpetual kids? Who sets supply and demand? They should feel the pinch and close if their operations aren't worth it.

42 posted on 01/21/2004 7:09:32 AM PST by spunkets
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To: DustyMoment
"what do we tell our kids to study in college in order for them to get a good job with a stable career"

Nuclear medicine including pharmacy, x-ray, etc.

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Diagnostic nuclear imaging offers a safe, reliable and cost-effective alternative to invasive diagnostic procedures and surgery. In these imaging procedures, an imaging camera scans a patient who has swallowed, inhaled or been injected with one of the prepared radiopharmaceutical compounds. These compounds concentrate in the particular organ or tissues to be examined. The imaging camera makes a computer-generated, full-motion video recording of the area in which the radiotracers have concentrated and this recording allows physicians to detect irregularities in that targeted area. Nuclear imaging is unique in that it documents organ structure and function, in contrast to other diagnostic methods, which only document the organ structure.

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72 posted on 01/21/2004 10:07:40 AM PST by kcvl
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