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My daughter's close friend is 24. She graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an anthropology major.
She is a tech recruiter for high tech Silicon Valley companies. She cleared $100K in 2014 -- most of which is variable compensation based on finding & placing engineers in tech companies.
She says it is a feeding frenzy - companies hiring like crazy with a dearth of talent available. Any good engineer, if they accidentally pull into the wrong parking lot and walk in the door of some random company, will be offered a job before they realize it.
"Truth bomb" is in response to this:
The recovery is uneven depending on what industry, what part of the country, and your age bracket.
Righteo - age bracket can hit you hard (it's a great and easy-to-hide reason for not hiring), where (NY IT and NV IT jobs was in the bottom quarter of jobs available some years ago).
We have little here as expected (construction is in demand but we'll see if they're right doing it).
Yeah, we all thought that back in 1982. It didn't quite work out that way.
That's because computers were slow at that point. Moore's Law doubles processing every two years. 1982 was 33 years ago so computer processing is about 92,682 if processing power was 2 in 1982. That's a lot and computers are much more powerful now. This is why you may want to believe Chicken Little this time. Oh and there was this report this year... http://siouxcityjournal.com/ap/washi...90dbc2d18.html
Look out! There's an unstoppable freight train of call center and low-paying retail jobs coming our way!!!
Seriously, except for healthcare (where all of my friends say they are dangerously overworked due to high patient loads and low staffing) the majority of jobs in our area are unskilled call center and part time retail jobs. Most of the employers offer no benefits and those that do require a 90 day wait period. This is not the rebound that people were hoping for. I know that engineers are doing well, especially in tech, but that is in limited areas of the country. And if you have any sort of science degree you are pretty much out of luck due to the vast number of green cards being hired at half the price. Employers are still holding all the cards regarding keeping wages low and requiring more hours, with the same old excuses that there are dozens of resumes in our files.
If you're skilled and live in a relevant urban area then it's fine.
Yes, migrating to where the work is (several examples, depending on expertise: SF Bay Area, Seattle metro, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles) and obtaining those relevant skills, via education and perseverance, is a splendid idea. Definitely the American way and can-do spirit, rather than waiting for "the Government" to solve anything and going on fraudulent disability.
Or, stay in Appalachia and complain. Right?
Welcome to it. Sound advice, thank you. I'm on the freight train, due to making those sacrifices btw. Don't be on the tracks?
My daughter's close friend is 24. She graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as an anthropology major.
She is a tech recruiter for high tech Silicon Valley companies. She cleared $100K in 2014 -- most of which is variable compensation based on finding & placing engineers in tech companies.
She says it is a feeding frenzy - companies hiring like crazy with a dearth of talent available. Any good engineer, if they accidentally pull into the wrong parking lot and walk in the door of some random company, will be offered a job before they realize it.
Does that also include native American engineers who are pushing north of 50 years old?
That is typical for some not to post a source, which by the way means they don't have one. Also typical how they will ignore posts like yours all because they cannot produce said source.
It appears that some of us (including me) don't follow the posts in a linear fashion. I quoted:
Originally Posted by Larry Caldwell
Half of the population is below average. There is no fix for that.
Go after Larry Caldwell as I did for stating he didn't quote a source. His post is without merit. He is the one you want to question.
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