Thank you for the elucidation.
Do you know why your company cannot find competent IT workers resulting in project collapse??
This is straight from the horses mouth. I have an IT Masters degree with a 4.0 GPA and experience. I know 30 plus software languages and I lead software teams.
People like me have smartly left long ago to better pay off a house. It is the smartest change in my life. It worked.
If I had stayed in software, I would have been homeless, and unemployed trying to compete with foreign Indians at 1/3 the income.
After training our Indian replacements, also called Replacement Migration, I never went back.
In economics, it is called unintended, perverse consequences. If you trade with slaves, you must become a slave. You can be the best cotton harvester, but if you compete directly with legalized slaves, you must also wear chains.
Leading a team of Indian migrant H-1B workers (aka slaves), is the nearly only way to survive commercial software development as an occupation. But Indians are tribal, and it may be short lived.
There can be exceptions, such as a part time hobby, but software is a poor way to pay off a mortgage. Software is a project institution. The work is good temporary money, but like a plumbing project, it ends quickly, while the mortgage remains.
The only real full time software occupations are in government or defense, not commercial.
I and others, would only do software as part time work. It is awesome as temporary, part time work. But software is no long term career.
Tell your children to walkaway from STEM careers. You compete at 1/3 the salary, with fake skills on fake resumes, seeking fake jobs, only written to satisfy government paperwork to hire Indian foreigners, learned at fake but well known Universities.
3/4ths of Silicon Valley workers are foreigners with few societal rights and fewer family rights. Is that what you want for your children when they can simply be a stable automobile mechanic?
The cheap labor, Republican Chamber of Commerce is addicted to foreign labor. Like all addictions, it is regressive.
And if you still doubt what I am saying, just look at the foreigner Visa artifact.
Congress and the cheap labor, Chamber of Commerce, who created the mess, are still tweaking foreigner Visas to allow for chain migration of Indian labor, to bring over more family members, like spouses.
It is an admission that worker Visas are ANTI-FAMILY.
The Software Industry is Anti Family. They hate families.
Instead, just legalize everybody. But then you are back to a normal society, with normal laws. And the perverse incentive is back to unlawful labor.
Well written & true.
As Hoapres on the old Dice job board put it:
Your best bet is to abandon IT. Best of luck.
I think by not standing up to this, we allow for more job destruction...and it is spreading to other careers besides coding (see below)...We are contributing to the prolem if we don’t try to stop it...
Right now there may be a lot of demand for auto mmechanics HVAC, plumbers, etc. but there is a limit to how many of those jobs are available...and over supply of workers means salaries will drop...
I have kids who have PhD and MS in STEM careers-—Hard to walk away now. Huge investment of resources...
BTW, I am painting STEM careers with broad brush...the H-1B invasion is not limited to IT...it has branched out into various accounting careers as well as medical careers...including nursing thanks to Rand Paul :/