Maybe now I can get a job like I once had. Older tech worker. Learned how to code in the 80’s...
Most companies would rather just let a job position sit empty rather than employ older white male native born Americans.
The problem is that the coding we did back in those days is considered obsolete and old-fashioned. And we also did something seemingly unheard-of now, testing our code!
Now, you need to be an expert on the 15 new scripting languages that have been released in the past 6 months to qualify for some of these positions. And that includes knowing all the current buzzwords used to describe them.
Of course, we can all be "greeters" at Walmart or Costco for $12/hour. Which is probably $5/hour more than the H-1B folks are being paid.
Step Daughter followed in her dad’s shoes, IT specialist, 4 yr degree. Not much she can’t fix or install. Saw the exit hitting and opened her own business. Been slow due to COVID. Her dad spent 20 yrs in the Navy as Avionic Tech, got out and got his teaching degree for Electronics, Math and Computer science as a Prof, ended up as Chair for his department Nearly 40 yrs teaching, taught the new Cisco teachers to do their jobs.
Daughter #1 is a Bio-Engineer sets up Labs now after grant for Cancer research was over at Vanderbilt, Son is lead Line man in FL for power company. He himself still teaches advance Ham Radio math, turns 80 next month.
Business lobbies worry Pres. Trump will send the Fortune 500's army of 'bonded labor' back to India.
That would be 300K jobs for American graduates, a huge boost for worker rights & professional class, and a useful populist promise for 2021.#H1Bhttps://t.co/uL2S1OxOUP— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) June 27, 2020