[null and void]

Wafer fab engineer, uppa 50’s few jobs available for nearly 4 years.

We’re still importing H-1Bs though...

[a fool in paradise]

Bill Gates needed his lower cost H1B workers. So he could make more money. So he could fund his foundation. So he could lobby the government to tax you more for things like socialized medicine (and outright push for death panels).

I loathe billionaire socialists like Gates and Soros who insist that I’m not paying enough taxes.

They are welcome to their wealth but they slit my throat to get it.

[GunningForTheBuddha]

I have more problem with H1B discrimination. The Indian developers know they can rarely out-code their US counterpart so they get into management or the technical reviewer team to keep us out.

[A_Former_Democrat]

We’re still importing H-1Bs though...

That’s a travesty . .

[muawiyah]

Early on I managed to find myself the first COBOL programmer on the organization's IBM 360 computer (yes, this is the days when CORE RULED).

In a short period of time I was writing more code, and doing it several times faster than the older, more experienced programmers.

Hmm ~ !?

Was it because I was being paid "entry level" wage, or something else.

Probably not because this was a government agency and I was actually hired into the shop doing this work at a higher wage than those already there.

On the other hand I was willing to come into work at 2 AM to pick up a report identifying errors in the code, and then immediately fixing those problems and recompiling the job.

That always gave me a day's advantage against the competition.

The other thing was I could stay awake for 2 or 3 days at a whack so I could keep "things" in mind about the programs I was working on.

It was great, and then I noticed that as I celebrated my 29th birthday I didn't particularly like showing up at 2 AM, nor did I care for the all-nighters anyway. I also bought a television and found out about the evening news, the morning weather report, and reruns of Star Trek.

Yeah, all those things, and people I know in the programming racket advise me it's still the same old thing, and the guys who do the night stuff, and get up early, and push, push, push, and keep their minds on every single last itty bitty detail of their projects still get the work.

The others move on into other stuff.

We use young men as soldiers for the same reason ~ even with the UAVs ~ the job does its thing on its own schedule, and the individual has to be able to set aside all worldly concerns and focus.

That stuff gets old though.