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 <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_cana...
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-myth-of-the-tech-talent-shortage-wh...
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