On 9/21/2010 9:38 PM, J. D. Slocomb wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:25:43 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:47:26 -0700 (PDT), Jessica Wabbit
wrote:



Not a lot of jobs other than medical or oilfield work here in
Taft/Bakersfield
Nearly all the jobs need serious college degrees.

Gunner

Bakersfiled is a college graduate community? No Walmart, no Mc
Donald, ...?

Unemployed PhD's have about the same income as unemployed dropouts.

In the recession of '71, a lot of CA aerospace engineers were flipping
burgers and pumping gas. Unfortunately, there are no longer any
gas-pumping jobs.


I had an interesting conversation with an ex-Boeing employee. If you
remember there were articles in the Sunday papers about the poor
wretches who, after 10 years with Boeing as an aerospace engineer were
now relegated to driving taxi's and drawing unemployment.

I asked the bloke "what about all the skilled craftsmen, the
machinists, welders, etc.?" He says, "Oh, they all moved to other
cities - plenty of work for those kind of chaps."

One of the biggest lies our government foists off on us is that we need
to train more scientists and engineers. Scientists and engineers are a
glut on the market--few work in the field for which they were trained
and IIRC roughly half work in nontechnical fields.

Simple fact is that there just isn't that much technical work out there.
If the US is "falling behind" technologically it's because the
government is acting as a pimple on the ass of progress, not because we
aren't lousy with engineers and scientists.