Tim Daneliuk wrote:



My analysis is not substantially wrong, though there may be small
errors of detail. There are NOT enough technology grads to fill the jobs
we
need filled. Most of the people going into so-called CS programs are
actually learning web programming and Java where there are way too
many people already. The jobs are in real hardcore engineering and true
computer science. Trade DOES materially lift all boats in the macro
picture. Trade DOES reduce the tendency of nations to go to war. These
are unremarkable observations. The only people that disagree with
them are not doing so on factual grounds but because they do not like the
outcomes.

Colleges graduate students where the market is heading - perhaps with a
little lag. You are right about the web development stuff, but that's where
the market is. Hardcore engineering is dying here. As you say below -
technology has evolved past that - for good or for bad - that's the way it
is.


It makes no difference whether my view of trade is right or your
complaints are valid. Here is REALITY: Jobs are- and will continue
to globalize. You can either embrace this change and learn to
function in this new larger pool of talent or sit in the corner whining
about how things used to be. I am well into my 50s and have had to
completely reinvent my profession 3
times (so far). I do not expect to be given a job, I do not think I
am entitled to anything (beyond fair treatment by my government), and I
sure as
heck don't think I am magically granted the ownership of a job for
all time. And, yes, I do know what long term unemployment feels like.
(And yes, I do
know what it's like to bust your butt to do a great job and to be
rewarded by being laid off.)


All of what you say above I would say as well.

--

-Mike-

Adapt or die. This is the lesson of nature and the lesson of history.