B.S. It is H1Bs and “off-shore” or what HP calls “best-shore” that is causing American IT workers to lose jobs. I will have nowhere to land because there will be no jobs left for white older American workers and not because I need to adapt!
I’m a contractor in an IT department of a major bank and one of 2 American born on my project team and one of 4 Americans in the entire department of 75.
That is certainly true to a large extent in some companies, but it’s not the only reason. Cisco created an unsustainable business model, and other companies and technologies are redefining the entire space.
Workforce reductions due to H1Bs are driven by cost and have the largest impact in companies not interested in a quality product. The age discrimination is a separate, but related issue.
Many tech companies blatantly discriminate on age. I’m not suggesting that it’s fair or right, but it’s a well-known trait that has only grown worse. I’ve had many friends out of work, and the longer they stay out, the more impossible it becomes to get back. Many have started their own businesses or switched to another career, while some became dependents of Uncle Sam after depleting limited resources.
I’m not advising anything other than planning for disruption, no matter who is president or where the economy goes. When that disruption is age, it hits us all.
Truer words were never spoken.
I know, personally. It’s crazy out there.
Don’t get me started on the idiocy I just heard over the phone about a job today. There’s a lot of folks living in fantasy-land these days. Try to solve problems; they make sure they are the problem. Bizarre.