I live in the DC area.
That means just about every major employer in the area requires some
level of a Top Secret Security clearance due to government contracts.
These are only ever offered to the brightest college seniors from the
local colleges. It takes about a year to actually secure one of these,
and can only be sponsored. Anyone older than a college senior is not
worth the investment.
(I'm 41, soon 42).
The job boards that cover my area are dominated by fossilized job
postings, these have been up for many months at a time. Apparently some
corporations do this just for internal budgetary reasons and have no
intention of hiring anyone, if it isn't actually just a zombie listing.
There is probably a pool of several thousand unemployed programmers and
IT people in the area. One job I applied for for simple IT work had over
440 applicants. Jobs that I believe to be legitimate are often filled in
less than 18 hours of being posted.
One suburb of the DC area, Bethesda Maryland, was noted for having a
population of 7,700 indians on H1-B visas, ofcourse these are displacing
any American with the chutzpah to think he could get a job in a hot
field in his own country...
I keep an eye on posts regarding visas and Trump's efforts to cut back
on the visa programs. One poster described the life of a person who
thought getting a computer science degree would set him up for life.
Well, the degree renders one "overqualified" for all other positions and
therefore unemployable.
There are laws against age discrimination but they can't really be
enforced.
I don't think I made any really bad mistakes in my life but nevertheless
I'm a doomed individual. The liberals have been so papered throughout
their life that they seem to think that all one needs to get on the boat
in this society is the will to climb over the rail. That is false, a
total lie.
In the coming months, the world will pay quite dearly for fucking over
my life.
THEY WILL PAY, ALL OF THEM!!!
I'm overtired right now, the heat of summer has not yet broken and I'm
not getting good sleeps. Still 80 degrees in here with the AC on at 3
AM... (my main computer contining an 8 month number theory computation
is not helping)
Anyway, I'll post about AI again when I'm in a better mood.
--
Clowns feed off of funny money;
Funny money comes from the FED
so NO FED -> NO CLOWNS!!!
Powers are not rights.
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