On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:21 PM Gary via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > > Well, as I had indicated in an earlier email, it is a fact that from a > U.S. census 74% of those with STEM degrees do not work in STEM. This is > my authority. > > However, even IEEE says that the "tech shortage" is just a myth: > https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth > > https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/05/13/how_the_myth_of_a_canadian_skill_shortage_was_shattered_goar.html > > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-myth-of-the-tech-talent-shortage-why-its-a-much-smaller-problem-than-vendors-say/ >
Gary, I think you misunderstand what Alex says. How is it different saying "only vocational training is worthwhile because spending money getting an academic degree is useless" from "you don't need vocational training, you can learn plumbing from youtube?". That is the ignorance he is calling out. I can attest to that. These are some very specialised fields. I have worked with some very smart people, who have reinvented 50 year old research because they don't have the academic CS background, and refuse to learn from those mistakes. This is why you see software becoming slower again :-). Dhaval --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
