Posted on 05/06/2019 2:57:50 PM PDT by zeestephen
>At 55, you’re very fortunate to have found something.
The opportunities are out there for many, but not all.
I am 75. Of the natural born Americans on the project I watch, many are older, like me. (It seems to be the young ones who lack the educations, although they have degrees and a couple years of “experience”, probably warming a chair.)
I have seen no age discrimination in GA.
I have commented on FR elsewhere about dysfunctions in the HR departments of some big employers.
I doubt the immigrant did either - but they were cheaper and more willing to lie.
1987-2012 I got a steady stream of recruiters seeking me to apply for IT jobs in Chicago and Chicagoland. 2012 the bottom dropped out of the job market.
I just got an email from a recruiter for a job in Chicago...the first in a long time. Pre2012 no week was less than 5 and most weeks were 20 and 30. Post 2012 it was more like 5 per year.
Post 2012 I get a lot of Chicago recruiters with jobs in TX, FL, NC and GA; not Chicagoland.
I had a job lined up in Hong Kong as a VR Technical Director. The Z-Visa was impossible this obtain. Needed letters of recommendation or certificate of clearance from every employer past college. Unheard of in most parts of the world. Took. A job with MLB instead.
That and their H4EAD spouses. In certain parts of Eastern King County near Seattle, the only jobs available for Americans are in grocery stores and fast food. Even the Retail Microsoft store in Bellevue Washington is chock-full of Indian employees.
SO Americans are not even qualified to do retail even?
So true. AMERICAN manager for Microsoft replaced by Indian. 4 Americans (orange-carders) including myself replaced by blue-card Indians, fresh off the plane.
So sorry to hear that. Yes, the Z-visa is a bear to obtain. It took me a while to obtain mine. It’s based on a point schedule. Of the last 40 years, many of my employers went out of business, and were no longer available to comment, so they used my patents and other achievements to boost my tabulated score numbers above the threshold.
Once lawyers start getting outsourced en masse, things will change.
CASE is the wave of the future, and always will be.
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