Where the Good Jobs Are Going

Time Canada ^ | August 4, 2003 | Jyoti Thottam

[Wolfie]

Do Not Panic! All Is Well!

[null and void]

Proving that if you've got Tata's you don't need brains???

[dfwgator]

And don't President Hillary will be any better on this. She singlehandedly brought Tata to Buffalo.

[waterstraat]

So what degrees should we get out of college?

Besides outsourcing, we need to worry about H1=B visas, and I see increasingly more and more Phillipino nurses(even ads specifically asking for Phillipino RN's), and asian phamacists over here.

[null and void]

Do Not Panic! All Is Well!

Translation = Wolfie has a job. (for now)

[lelio]

And don't President Hillary will be any better on this. She singlehandedly brought Tata to Buffalo.

Does she get any questions about this? Or, as I suspect, is she getting a free ride?

[null and void]

FWIW, Hillary won't run for Presiden in 2004, she'll run for VICE President. Think of it:

• She keeps he promise not to run for president in '04
• Two years and one day into her term the first slotter gets arkincided
• Under Article XXII, she can still run for two full terms as the incumbent
• The Hillary!™ Decade begins
• Hillary uses the Patriot Act to it's fullest extent, and beyond
• At the end of the Hillary!™ Decade there is a National Emergency "temporarily" delaying the elections
• Under the pressure of the National Emergency, the 2nd and 22nd amendments are repealed...

[Question_Assumptions]

54K is still is good salary. His mortgage and bills should have been based on conservative assumptions, if he'd been more frugal with utilities etc in the first place, he'd have more savings now, and if he thinks he can make 54-77K house painting he's nuts. I know, I've done it.

You don't live in the New York City metropolitan area, do you?

Maybe the guy was misquoted, but he sounds like a real loser.

Or maybe $54,000 per year in New Jersey isn't the same as $54,000 a year in Kansas.

[Wolfie]

Actually, I was just doing my imitation of the folks whose jobs are not yet on the offshoring track.

[ColdSteelTalon]

54k is not a good salary not for a man with 3 kids. To call someone a loser who you do not know is very shallow.

[Question_Assumptions]

Actually, you DO live in New Jersey. And you think $54,000 is a good salary?

[ColdSteelTalon]

54k in new Jersey for anyone is not very good. A single man can get by well but that's about it. House taxes are extremely high.

[null and void]

Ah! It was a very good imitation...

[Wolfie]

Also, I liked this little tidbit:

Discouraged by a depressed job market in Dallas, Lantz realized he would have to do something else. In the fall he will begin teaching computer science at Utah State University in Logan,

...obviously to students who aren't paying any attention to the job market.

[Doctor Stochastic]

No, Microsoft said that they would add 4000-5000 jobs with about 3500 of these within the US.

I don't think Microsoft has 3,000,000 employees.

[aSkeptic]

Outsource the executives!

[sauropod]

1) All of the above.

2) conservative ones.

I did not get the take you did (i.e. the guy was a "loser") from the information presented in the article.

And $77K is not that much money any more. Which was my point.

[jpl]

The tax system is intentionally designed to rape the middle class in order to keep most of us from ever becoming rich. A rich person is an independent person, and an independent person can't be controlled or manipulated.

[Question_Assumptions]

If you bought a house in the early 1990s during the housing bust, and if you bought a house outside of the "McMansion Line" (which now pushes South to Exit 8A on the Turnpike, Southwest past Princeton, and West past Parsippany), and have no other major debt, you could get by. I have a house inside of the "McMansion Line" that I got a good deal on so I'm doing OK despite both my wife and I being laid off and a current loss of salary in the $40K range. Regardless, $54,000 isn't a good salary in Northeastern New Jersey, especially with three kids.

Of course if you really want pain, you should look at the San Francisco Bay area. A friend is moving out there and any kind of decent home on just 1/16th of an acre of land goes for $300,000 or more.

[sauropod]

I love it. The Huckster has been spanked royally ;-).