No, I think YOU have misunderstood. When I download lectures I do so for
the sole purpose of entertainment and nothing more; I'm a senior
citizen. My thinking was that those individuals who enjoy science and
engineering can still indulge that interest and yet support themselves
with jobs that are unlikely to be outsourced. The alternative case of
spending a lot of money on a science or engineering degree to learn
science, which is their passion, just does not make sense because the
hope of establishing a career in the field before it gets outsourced is
unfounded in view of the fact that places like India have very talented
people who can do the job, do it better and work cheap!
/gary
On 19-03-13 11:28 AM, Dhaval Giani wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:21 PM Gary via talk <[email protected]> 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
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