Posted on 04/07/2007 7:25:14 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
Ayn Rand also.
Carolyn
My son has the exact same problem, he can't find a decent job to save his life in the IT field
Unfortunately for him, I think this type of whining is half his problem. I have heard this same thing from him. I seriously doubt his or your young life is destroyed.
Change fields, find a niche, freelance, you find a way to succeed, stop waiting for someone to feel your pain.
MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN
Life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
BTW, I lost a high paying job do to age discrimination, I worked three low paying, low skill jobs for more than a year until I found a similar field that took my skills and was willing to pay me for them. I now make more than I did before and have half the pressure
In other words, suck it up
Shhhh! You're not supposed to remember that! Now tune into See-BS or some alphabet news network. You're feeling slee-py! Slee-py...
Cheers!
what state is this in? I’ll bet it’s not Michigan
:)
Which is why software QA is looking like a good place to be for the moment :-)
Cheers!
...employers around the world are having trouble hiring the right kind of staff for the right kind of money.
Translation: They want highly skilled, dedicated eager workers willing to work for less than slave wages?
Or even common SENSE.
I have a friend from Nigeria who is also a Chicago school Economist with an Ivy League degree. It's his feeling that things will get much much much worse in Africa before they get any better. The detail level of his analysis it's a little disturbing, and I think he has an excellent point, even if I'm unable to paraphrase it effectively here.
I have a recruiter buddy whose biggest complaint is this very issue. He can't understand some of these folks who insist they are highly skilled at whatever he's looking for. Drives him crazy.
The fact of the matter is, in everything I've ever failed at, it's because of me alone. And I personally think the reason I'm managing to glean some small success now is because I've continued to give it everything I have in spite of those failures.
Sometimes I think I know how catholic nuns must feel... you know... in love with the struggle for it's own sake? Well with me it's the same sort of thing. I struggle to succeed because I can't help it. I do it in the face of failure after failure after failure because I don't know any other way to do thing.
And sometimes I wonder how many other people who are successful view their lives the same way.
A lot of companies already do. Agentina and Brazil, too.
Ohio.
My sweetie works for a large computer company, best known by 3 letters. She manages support personel in Asia that support end users in China, India and Singapore.
They cannot keep the 3rd shift staffed in China.
My niche job will be to shoot anyone who uses that irritating phrase. ;-)
"What did you go into in its stead?", he asked with interest.
I had not budgeted the time for such new "pigeon holing" technology that I found rampant in the industry, all to allow people who didn't know what they were reading, to refer people who they couldn't prove had the skills, to jobs that were looking for the very cheapest possible warm bodies.
I think this is because most executives don't understand technology, and neither do the managers. As a result, most of the projects fail anyway, so there is no perceived value in having competent technical staffers. All goes to the bottom line.
(Those few that do understand technology -- take Gates, for example -- have become common thieves. Microsoft was recently sitting on $50 billion in *cash* with essentially no debt. If that had been invested in US treasuries (the 'risk-free' rate of return) even near the low point in interest rates after 9-11, it would have returned free cash flow of $1 billion per year, with no risk to principal, and without tying up cash flow from ongoing operations. And Microsoft's profit margin is north of 50%. So when Gates says he "cannot afford" US programmers, he is lying through his teeth.
But I did notice a large number of adds were now adamant regarding the use of understandable English skills, plus a legal right to work in the US, and from that, and other experiences, I could pretty much see this handwriting on the wall.
Also see my vanity from 1 year ago where I touched on the same upcoming labor shortage, here.
Cheers!
Cheers to you, Popman. Your glass is half full, not half empty.
Great words to live by. I agree with you.
Re post 50, any of his works on the net? Do you have any links? I would like to read them.
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