Posted on 07/09/2005 1:42:13 PM PDT by Panerai
"Moves by international companies to move jobs in information technology, high-tech manufacturing and research and development to low-income developing countries"
Say like Microsoft, GM, etc. exporting jobs to India. Yep, explains a lot.
In the 80s and 90s one would regularly hear talk about the need for American companies to be good "corporate citizens". Those days and ideals have given way to globalization and the new super terrific "service economy".
Anybody becomoing an engineer in todays world is STUPID unless they are using it as an undergrad before Med School or Law School. If you are going to engineering school go civil. They can't send all the civil jobs offshore!
Americans are simply going to have to get used to "the next big thing" coming from overseas.
When I was in school, civil engineering was not attractive because of its poor job prospective. Now, they are on top?
We are doomed. DOOMED.
Don't be too paranoid. There are expanding markets oversears that companies want part of.
Duh! Let's see, we export our technical jobs where possible; we hire aliens under special visas because employers do not want to pay American wages; 1/3 of MIT etc (perhaps more) students come from outside the US - and where do they go when they graduate? ... and I haven't even gotten into the erosion of our Constitution, the Degenerats not standing for anything and the GOP looking to screw its constituents.
Do you mean we will all be broke?
Interesting you should say that; at UCSD, the Structural Engineering major has doubled it's enrollement in the last two years.
In "Design of Timber Structures", a class I took last quarter, the professor remarked he was used to teaching the class to maybe 30 students (there were 92 enrolled).
Equalize to what? In how many years?
Once those jobs are gone they are not coming back.
More lawyers, that's the ticket.
"Anybody becomoing an engineer in todays world is STUPID unless they are using it as an undergrad before Med School or Law School. If you are going to engineering school go civil. They can't send all the civil jobs offshore!"
Just a few months ago I attended a seminar on outsourcing at one of our California State Universities. The speaker made a point that the United States graduates sixty thousand engineers each year while India graduates three hundred and fifty thousand engineers each year.
Economics students, please shift labor supply curve to the right and note what happens on the vertical axis. (Where the wage is indicated.)
Why would anyone get a degree in th scientific field or engineering? With every increase in H1-B and L-1 visa holders into this country is one less job open for an American kid.
Half right. Chemical engineers still do pretty well. Petroleium engineers took it seriously in the shorts during the collapse of the US oil companies in the late 1990's, and demand still hasn't recovered.
And these companies won't accept foreign degrees from Americans but will import workers with foreign degrees for the same job.
To attend four years of college in India is 4k and it is all in English.
Yeah but the civils can't have a lot of the jobs shipped offshore like most other engineering professions. Civil is the growth field. The rest are dying slowly.
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