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What's important is whether the candidate finds it interesting or not and whether that can be used to determine whether they'll find the work at their potential job interesting.
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Not saying it is but history shows us thatshit goes downwhen there's a resource people want to exploit. Also:
From:Human Appropriation of the World's Fresh Water Supply
That's from 2006 and I can't imagine that those above facts have changed any. In fact,this placehas water scarcity as the #1 global risk to society. #8 on likelihood of occuring though, but it's still something people need to keep in mind.
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It's hard =(
Can saltwater quench our growing thirst? | Ensia
Desalination is one of those problems that reducing energy cost would drastically help.
Dr. Philip Davies is also researching a process that would spend even more energy, but would convert the leftover brine into a substance that absorbs CO2.
Dr Philip Davies
Can saltwater quench our growing thirst? | Ensia
Desalination is one of those problems that reducing energy cost would drastically help.
Dr. Philip Davies is also researching a process that would spend even more energy, but would convert the leftover brine into a substance that absorbs CO2.
Dr Philip Davies
AladainAF
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Going back to this discussion, thought I'd drop this here...Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.
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Hachima
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The news reporting on this is pretty bad..
H1B Data 2015
I only see a couple project managers that would fall into the october timeframe. Whatever these 250 were, weren't being replaced by H1B in Orlando by HCL. Maybe a bunch of helpdesk type people were outsourced, but that's different than jobs being transferred to H1B. It sounds more like a vocal PM may was been replaced by a H1B...
Senator Calls for DHS Investigation of H-1B Visa Program After Reports of Disney Layoffs : snopes.com
Well if that's his actual resume he is sending out, that's usually trash can material for me. If you are spouting off that many programming languages and technologies and programs, how can I honestly believe you are a master at all of these and you aren't going to waste my time when the position I'm trying to fill only really uses 2 or 3 of the ones listed? A good resume needs to be catered to the position. Sure you may have touched them all at some point in your career but just list what you have been most recently involved in and could actually pass an interview if I asked you about said language/technology. Anyway, somewhat beside the real point.
The PM that replaced him looks like they are getting 91k salary. Maybe a bit lower than average for the listed experience (PM III), but not terrible.
Most likely a big crew of help desk type people were laid off. A small percent(maybe 5%) of those are the ones on the H1Bs and the rest are probably working from another country This then let Disney move more resources into more local higher tech skilled jobs (us workers).The media makes it sound like they changed to 250 H1Bs which doesn't sound like the case though.Not to say the H1B system doesn't need to be looked into. The 30-40k salary H1B jobs HCL has listed seem questionable. For the specific Disney case, it doesn't stand out as an abuse of the system though.The ~100 H1Bs that Disney directly applied for has have a median salary of 115k.
The same for Northeast Utilities.. They show 5 total H1B...
From my experience interviewing for software development jobs...I'm not surprised at the need for skilled workers. There were so many cases of just.... uhhg no... One of the people I did choose for my team was on an H1B and as the manager hiring this was completely transparent to me. I didn't even know until much later after he was hired. HR just hands me a stack of resumes and I interviewed them.
These articles don't seem like they match the full picture of the job titles of who were replaced and how many/who was actually replaced by H1B. It sounds more like mixing outsourcing lesser skilled tech jobs (help desk type stuff ) with higher skilled H1B (70k+ type salary jobs) into the same bucket and considering them the same thing.
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Apparently there are several publications that have been investigating this, so I don't know.
Another article about it (Opinion piece).
Op-ed: Hatch should fix H1-B visa program instead of expand it | The Salt Lake Tribune
Another article about it (Opinion piece).
Op-ed: Hatch should fix H1-B visa program instead of expand it | The Salt Lake Tribune
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After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs - Slashdot
More like they didn't want to be investigated and have all sorts of other shady shit turn up.
More like they didn't want to be investigated and have all sorts of other shady shit turn up.
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Interesting, but most likely correct. People forget, the entire point of H1-B is to bring people in for work that americans are not available.
When you look at the H1-B list from Hachima's list, most of them are basic corporate level positions (i.e. Network Administrator I, Programmer Analyst I, etc). There is absolutely no way there are not Americans to fill those positions. Absolutely not. No chance. This is another reason why "Immigration Reform" is being fought for so hard by corporate interests.
When you look at the H1-B list from Hachima's list, most of them are basic corporate level positions (i.e. Network Administrator I, Programmer Analyst I, etc). There is absolutely no way there are not Americans to fill those positions. Absolutely not. No chance. This is another reason why "Immigration Reform" is being fought for so hard by corporate interests.
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Bump for mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooar.
Qualcomm Lays Off 4,500 While Lobbying For More H-1bs | The Daily Caller
Qualcomm Lays Off 4,500 While Lobbying For More H-1bs | The Daily Caller
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I appear to be the only one updating this thread now, sadly. I guess foreigners on H1-B's taking over American jobs isn't an issue.
: Layoffs provoke H-1B visa blowback | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com
: Layoffs provoke H-1B visa blowback | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com
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I work as a land surveyor. The situation I face is interesting but probably applicable to other fields. I am 32 years old and about to sit for my professional licensure exam. So that makes me about three years younger than the average age for those who sit.
I went to school and earned a BS in Surveying Engineering Technology. I was a non-traditional student and finished my 4 year program when I was 28. The requirements in my state list a 4 year degree with 4 years of experience, 3 of which show responsible charge as the preferred path towards licensure. A 2 year degree with 6 years of experience is also a possibility. After that you need like 14 years of experience, which is essentially just telling people to go to school.
So becoming licensed is not a get rich quick scheme by any means.
The problem with this, is that no one is entering the field anymore. The profession is literally dying off. Each year the number of surveyors who die or retire exceeds the number of new licenses. There was this magical hope back when they increased the education requirements for Professional Licensure that they would see a glut of freshly minted surveyors taking the tests at ages 26-28. But that really hasn't panned out. Also, the profession is 99.9999% white men. Demographics like that really hurt an industry's ability to maintain fresh blood.
So that puts me in a very good place in terms of available work in front of me. Four of the local surveyors are retiring in the very near future. However, I suddenly need to figure out how I can fill that void. Surveys in my region can require a lot of involved analysis and research to do correctly, so there is a variable amount of effort in those areas. Field work (the actual location or marking of boundaries) is extremely easy to predict in terms of time required based on the technique used. I keep bouncing around ideas to speed up field work and reduce time outside of the office to try and minimize total project time, but then I realize this is adding to the first problem/opportunity of not enough surveyors.
When I started working for a surveyor he needed a kid on his field crew. Now most practitioners are solo operations or big engineering firms. Tech eliminated the multi-person field crew, and thereby squashed one of the traditional routes into the profession. The low man on the field crew totem pole.
So this iterative process of finding newer cheaper faster ways of doing things creates competition and results in work getting done faster with fewer people, is a lot like climbing a scaffold using a single ladder. Everyone climbs up the ladder and gets to the first level, then someone figures out a way to get to the next level by pulling up the ladder up from the ground. Everyone scoots up quick to the next level, but some stay behind, others fall off, and a bunch of people that may have climbed up to the first level just walk by. This keeps going until you are left with a handful of people performing the work that used to take hundreds, with no easily reproducible path to follow. Then when those people go away, you are left looking for someone who can do 100 things well and no time to train anyone.
I see a lot of professions experiencing similar issues and then I see the giant shadow of automation looming on horizon. Automation has been eating positions and eventually professions that become too costly to maintain with personnel. I doubt there is any way to fight it. Maybe this is just the natural progression of such things, but I feel that automation is increasing rapidly in terms of capabilities and shrinking rapidly in terms of cost. At some point it will simply be cheaper to automate even brand new positions or tasks that had previously never been needed.
*crazy lumie mumbling*
I guess the biggest thing I have decided upon is to set my own standard of happiness. I don't want a large house or a 6 figure salary. I want to live where people don't fuck with me and take care of my own needs. (Food, power ect.) Self sufficiency helps sidestep a lot of the bullshit and makes me feel good at the end of the day. I am not going nuts worrying about it, like if the end of the world happens a basement full of beans wont amount to... well... But I do eat well and sleep well, and that seems worth quite a bit these days.
I went to school and earned a BS in Surveying Engineering Technology. I was a non-traditional student and finished my 4 year program when I was 28. The requirements in my state list a 4 year degree with 4 years of experience, 3 of which show responsible charge as the preferred path towards licensure. A 2 year degree with 6 years of experience is also a possibility. After that you need like 14 years of experience, which is essentially just telling people to go to school.
So becoming licensed is not a get rich quick scheme by any means.
The problem with this, is that no one is entering the field anymore. The profession is literally dying off. Each year the number of surveyors who die or retire exceeds the number of new licenses. There was this magical hope back when they increased the education requirements for Professional Licensure that they would see a glut of freshly minted surveyors taking the tests at ages 26-28. But that really hasn't panned out. Also, the profession is 99.9999% white men. Demographics like that really hurt an industry's ability to maintain fresh blood.
So that puts me in a very good place in terms of available work in front of me. Four of the local surveyors are retiring in the very near future. However, I suddenly need to figure out how I can fill that void. Surveys in my region can require a lot of involved analysis and research to do correctly, so there is a variable amount of effort in those areas. Field work (the actual location or marking of boundaries) is extremely easy to predict in terms of time required based on the technique used. I keep bouncing around ideas to speed up field work and reduce time outside of the office to try and minimize total project time, but then I realize this is adding to the first problem/opportunity of not enough surveyors.
When I started working for a surveyor he needed a kid on his field crew. Now most practitioners are solo operations or big engineering firms. Tech eliminated the multi-person field crew, and thereby squashed one of the traditional routes into the profession. The low man on the field crew totem pole.
So this iterative process of finding newer cheaper faster ways of doing things creates competition and results in work getting done faster with fewer people, is a lot like climbing a scaffold using a single ladder. Everyone climbs up the ladder and gets to the first level, then someone figures out a way to get to the next level by pulling up the ladder up from the ground. Everyone scoots up quick to the next level, but some stay behind, others fall off, and a bunch of people that may have climbed up to the first level just walk by. This keeps going until you are left with a handful of people performing the work that used to take hundreds, with no easily reproducible path to follow. Then when those people go away, you are left looking for someone who can do 100 things well and no time to train anyone.
I see a lot of professions experiencing similar issues and then I see the giant shadow of automation looming on horizon. Automation has been eating positions and eventually professions that become too costly to maintain with personnel. I doubt there is any way to fight it. Maybe this is just the natural progression of such things, but I feel that automation is increasing rapidly in terms of capabilities and shrinking rapidly in terms of cost. At some point it will simply be cheaper to automate even brand new positions or tasks that had previously never been needed.
*crazy lumie mumbling*
And then the automation process itself will become automated. I guess at that point we'll all be dead or in government Fema camps so it wont matter... But, having more people than ever with shrinking opportunities seems like a recipe for some really terrible working conditions. The technical skills that require years of training will be filled by machines and the cheapest, dirtiest, deadliest tasks will be carried out by masses of starving people too desperate to do anything else. Oh wait...
I guess the biggest thing I have decided upon is to set my own standard of happiness. I don't want a large house or a 6 figure salary. I want to live where people don't fuck with me and take care of my own needs. (Food, power ect.) Self sufficiency helps sidestep a lot of the bullshit and makes me feel good at the end of the day. I am not going nuts worrying about it, like if the end of the world happens a basement full of beans wont amount to... well... But I do eat well and sleep well, and that seems worth quite a bit these days.
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Thanks for the insight Pancreas, but a simple solution to that problem is to simply pay more and remove barriers to entry. Part of why a lot of people do oil rig work isn't because they want to do the work, it's because they can work with little experience for 70k a year.
BTW: Wife and I are very well off and still very often eat pinto beans and cornbread. It's still good shit, rich or poor.
Add some pork hock, onion, and garlic in the beans let them heat on low on the crockpot for 30 hours, and gawd bless best beans ever. One thing we've both figured out is no matter how much money you make, nothing brings personal happiness than (as you said) self-sufficiency and truly enjoying the simple things in life.
I really share this, and of course being married my wife and I share this together. We want to do well and certainly don't mind our salaries (for now), but most of all we would trade all of that just to get 50 acres in the middle of no where, don't fuck with me or my family, and let us take care of our own needs. Most definitely, one of the most fulfilling feelings in life once you get there. We're already working on it, but it does take money to get there. That's just a fact of life.
BTW: Wife and I are very well off and still very often eat pinto beans and cornbread. It's still good shit, rich or poor.
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Wonderful. *rolls eyes*
Feds dangle $12,000 bonus to firms that hire foreign students | Washington Examiner
Feds dangle $12,000 bonus to firms that hire foreign students | Washington Examiner
