[funkywbr]

The superiority the United States has held in technology trade has suddenly vanished.

At my office, besides outsourcing we are also insourcing.

It was funny as hell having my black manager comment one day about how she went into the coffee room and thought she was in another country.

Actually it would be funny if it wasn't so UNfunny.

I've made a list of backup plans just in case all of this out and in sourcing leaves so little room in the office that it forces me out the door.

Hell might as well be mentally ready, right?

[RightWhale]

When I was studying EE for a couple years, there were 3 disciplines available. For some reason most thought communications or microelectronics had the glamour and went for that. A few thought municipal power would be a decent career. What a surprise when it was discovered that municipal power actually paid better and had job security for life. Boring stuff, transformers, poles, and wires.

[Cronos]

It was funny as hell having my black manager comment one day about how she went into the coffee room and thought she was in another country.

Actually it would be funny if it wasn't so UNfunny.

hmmm... what's that supposed to mean? Your black manager doesn't belong in this country with us palefaces? I'da thunk blacks would be more affected by additional labour.

[GOP_1900AD]

I am thinking of a start up. Two ideas. One would be managing a consortium of underutilized domestic industrial facilities and talent to rebuild the US aerospace, space and defense industry from the ground up, using lean Sigma principles. Clearly, very capital intensive and fairly risky. The second idea is a bit more mundane - making ammunition. This one would use a combination of advanced techniques, which I will not share here, to design and build ammo which blows away any and all imports in terms of performance, price and quality. Eventually, once established we could uplevel to doing military work up to and including the largest artillery shells. It's good to have these sorts of plans.