Re: Outsourcing jeopardizes U.S. chemical industry, expert says

Straydog wrote:
At the BS level, YOU, not me, are going to probably witness--unless there is a
vast revaluation of exchange rates--the mass movement of more and more S&E
jobs to India, China, Brazil, Russia. Its already happening. The bottom
line is anything that can be done at a desk is a candidate for offshoring.

Art, repeat after me, "There's a shortage of S&Es! There's a shortage
of S&Es! There's a shortage of S&Es! " Ok, are you convinced now?

So? I have a family. I like seeing them more than once every couple weeks.

Guys I talked to were home at the end of the day.

Ah, but the pride and joy of being James T Kirk is missing outside of
S&E work.

Like I said in one of the posts about a recent WSJ article, enrollment in
distance learing is skyrocketing and they have a great chance to hire an
Indian or a Chinese guy to teach it. Just wait till University of China
goes online and gets accredited by a US agency and starts handing out
decent degrees for $2,000, total cost. Or, maybe Russia, or India.

Some of the schools in Hong Kong and Singapore are already offering
London University tutorial courses so that their students can get both
a local education and the brand name of an international school via
distance learning. I think this can easily take off in a major way
during the near term future and as a result, our university centric
culture will rapidly deteriorate during the next 20 to 30 years. Athens
or Camelot, depending upon your literary leanings, is no more.

My father did want me to follow in his footsteps. I thought I knew better.
Now, I'd tell anyone to work their way into local commerce and stay away
from tenure worries, political backstabs, grant funding fads that come and
go. And, for a few other reasons, too. Besides I knew faculty who hated
their jobs.

Couldn't a plumber get a chemical engineering diploma, part-time, so
that he can discuss his process engineering skills with me and
Threeducks and impress us with his sedimentation analysis?

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