To: techie12
By hiring H-1Bs and offshoring, the industry has done a great job of dissuading college students from majoring in computer science. Now Bill Gates comes in and say, "Hey, guys, don't run off, the computer industry needs you. Word!
In their drive for the cheapest labor, (which means foreign) the High Tech industry has slit the throat of the domestic pipeline. Good students suddenly are attracted to banking, law (shudder), business, engineering or anything except computer science. Hello Mr. Gates...Econ 101...
6 posted on
03/03/2004 4:05:31 PM PST by
Wheee The People
(If this post doesn't make any sense, then it also doubles as a bump.)
To: Wheee The People
"In their drive for the cheapest labor, (which means foreign) the High Tech industry has slit the throat of the domestic pipeline. Good students suddenly are attracted to banking, law (shudder), business, engineering or anything except computer science. Hello Mr. Gates...Econ 101..."
Yeah. There was already enough trouble getting kids to tackle the tough engineering courses.
I have been a professional engineer (electronics)all my career.
I cannot recommend engineering as a professional pursuit to my kids. You're job WILL go to an H-1B or be outsourced.
It's just not worth the work to get an engineering degree.
Study something that can't be outsourced
27 posted on
03/03/2004 5:37:26 PM PST by
EEDUDE
(Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Wheee The People
Gates and the other typically myopic corporate heads want our kids to spend a fortune on a university education in computer science and then have to take a minimum wage job after they are laid off because the companies have decided to save money and go to India. How stupid does he think we and our kids are?
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