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Originally Posted by Rodney
Actually, _educated_ third-world persons have been taking my jobs. High tech employers are outsourcing to China and India whenever possible. At first it was QA and legacy maintenance, now increasingly it's design and development.
I have no idea what I could reeducate myself to in the high-tech marketplace that couldn't be outsourced, and isn't being increasingly outsourced. Ultimately, I've read that 50 million American jobs are going to be "outsourceable." There's no way enough people could be retrained, even if there was something to retrain them to.
I am, by the way, on my third career in ten years. I'm dancing as fast as I can -- and I'm not getting ahead. And I'm not the only one. You can talk about personal virtue all that you want, but the point is that the deck has been stacked against the American worker, and the stacking keeps going on and getting worse. Eventually, the economy will collapse because nobody can afford to buy SUVs and lattes and investment homes and gourmet takeout, and all _those_ jobs will vanish, and we'll pick up the pieces.
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If you are in high tech, your challange is 10 times that of everyone else. I remember in college taking a course in FORTRAN. In the '80's the insructor told us the language was already obsolete. He didn't even understand why the course was required (I was an ECON/Bus major). In high tech if you rest for 6 months your competetive edge is gone. If you loose your edge who's fault is that?
I know many high tech people who adapted or made the money while they could and then simply did other things. Those still programming in FORTRAN are probably still in their mom's basement eating cheetos.