So this bugs me, so Fox had been pushing people to not go to college or seek higher education. I get that we need skilled trade workers, and there is nothing wrong with a good paying trade job. But I’m in high tech and have been involved with about 10 hirings in the past year, and almost nobody applying are Americans, and the few that are, tend not to be qualified. So we hire immigrants or foreigners on H1B visas right out of college starting at 200-250k a year, plus stock and bonuses. There is a huge gap being created going forward. This is F’ed up.
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What sort of 'tech'?
What I have noticed in the past is that we were having a difficult time finding young people willing to work, period. They all seemed to want desk jobs rather than working their tools or with their hands. I've mostly worked in Electrical, power plants and such. We paid our 'tech' guys less, actually, because we made a lot of overtime and they didn't. So while they made the same (30) dollars an hour we made more annually because hours. Sometimes when we were fighting corrupt machine language, ladder logic in boilers say, one of the tech guys might come out in the field to try to help but we almost always shooed them back to their offices before they did more damage.
What tech is paying new hires 100 dollars an hour?
But we did notice that young people were not willing to put in hours and sweat, not willing to earn respect and promotion, yeah. I used to ask people if they have ever worked 100 plus hour weeks, most scream back no.
Yet THAT is what it takes to make America run. Slackers on the couch taking Gibs have no clue...
What tech pays new hires 100 an hour, and why?
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It’s market, I used to pay $22 an hour for a guy in India, he probably got less than half of that. Now the offshore resources are anywhere from 40 to 70 an hour, and often need two offshore to do the job of one here. So $100 an hour here is starting, probably lose 1/4 within 2 years to higher paying gigs, but more often than not they come back since the stock and bonus are sweet. Of course where I live a decent house starts in the 600-700k, but if you can live in a more reasonable area and work remotely, best of both worlds. Why the kids coming out of high school don’t get this, blows my mind. There are plenty of great jobs in the US, they just aren’t driven together the right education.