The job market truly sucks. It's not only in America. On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 09:16, Alan Grimes via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote:
> 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. > -- Stefan Reich BotCompany.de // Java-based operating systems ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T8eabd59f2f06cc50-M44db6ef14060dc59e20f4167 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
