Re: Postdoc jobs from multiple companies can be found on indeed.com

Straydog wrote:

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I took many projects deliberatey to gain broad experience and learn
new ranges of technical applications etc. that has been quite
valuable, I can see solutions others cannot in many cases...
however as you folks have been pointing out, none of that is saleable
or valuable in the current 'job' market....

What THEY want is CHEAP and YOUNG and EXPLOITABLE warm bodies. The rest of us can eat crow.

Which begs the question: how do these outfits expect to stay in business and provide high-quality goods or services when they don't want to hire people with experience and/or education? I suspect that we are in, to borrow a phrase that I first heard in the Ken Burns documentary series "The Civil War", the Age of Shoddy. They simply don't care.



Fortune mag, May issue has a one page article on america's attitude
toward education..its being trashed, parents are increasingly calling
school administrators to complain about attempts to teach little
johnny algebra 'what does he need *that for'...and of course its that
parent who is old enough to work for a company and drive its hiring
policy.

2 year school programs will be better for most.

Having taught at a two-year institution, I've seen how that system can be circumvented by certain parties. Not a pretty sight.


the article points out how this will bankrupt the US in dire terms.
If it had gone on to explain how letting 20 million uneducated aliens
will affect the nation, as these are authorized to bring in their
families, for a total of 40 or 50 million, as more than that many
educated american middle class retires...the picture gets dim indeed.

There are studies to show they eat up more services than the money they save their employers.

A major computer retail chain here in Canada is closing a number of its outlets. At its peak, it had four of them in my city and, when the close-out sales end, there'll only be one left, as far as I know.

It used to be a great place to buy equipment and software and I left a lot of $$$ there over the years. However, in the last five or so years, I noticed that the quality of service declined. I'm not sure if it's related, but the average age of the staff steadily went down during that same time as well. It could well have been an act of desperation to remain solvent.

How a large part of its organization's going belly up.

BTW, I bought a demonstrator computer and LCD monitor so I can tinker with Linux at one of them. I saved over a third. I set up everything and the machinery works. Now to set up for Linux.....



thats a net 100 million or more change to the negative in the total US
work force. (168 million).... without the US middle class breeding
even to replacement levels, but with the uneducated folk, who today
statistics show drop out of school at the highest rates, breeding at 2
or 3x replaement rates.

I want to know who is going to pay these ridiculous tuitions when kids won't be able to get those $100K loans any more, and won't get good jobs to pay off those loans.

One word: plastic.

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