White Male Millennial Engineer here, what you say is absolutely correct. While I have a job available to US citizens only, I have "STEM" friends in other sectors of the economy report that Indians are taking their jobs or providing unreasonable competition. And, being a landlord, I have rented one of my properties to an Indian in STEM and despite having several years of experience, he's making less than I did as an zero-experience engineer >10 years ago. These foreigners are absolutely depressing the wages of native STEM persons.
Edit: my side hustle is handyman activities, Sanjay pays out the nose for those. I'm going to encourage my daughter to get involved in blue collar trades.
I agree, but it still funnels people into a few paths, rather than spreading the American employees into different types of work. That still hurts the American worker. That being said, I've always had a job and had always had multiple pending offers to work elsewhere. I just really don't like the employers talking out both sides of their mouth. They have to hire H1Bs, because there is shortage of tech talent. They can't pay well because there are so few jobs and so many people fighting for the jobs. The truth is somewhere in the middle. There are plenty of tech jobs out there that pay well, but H1Bs are definitely flooding the market, lowering wages, and setting a very low bar for how you can treat employees.
Point being, the diesel world needs good technicians. Car techs arent bad, but how many people will skimp on spending money fixing a car. In the diesel world, businesses NEED that piece of equipment to work and they usually don't care about costs to fix it.
I also have seen plumbers and electricians being high demand and staying that way. I compare these because most plumbers don't invest anywhere near as much as mechanics and still have equal if not higher pay.
Plumbing and Electricians are some of the last jobs that will be automated and because those systems are getting more complex and more computerized, you need more skills so it makes it harder to get replaced by illegals or diversity hires.
White Male Millennial Engineer here, what you say is absolutely correct. While I have a job available to US citizens only, I have "STEM" friends in other sectors of the economy report that Indians are taking their jobs or providing unreasonable competition. And, being a landlord, I have rented one of my properties to an Indian in STEM and despite having several years of experience, he's making less than I did as an zero-experience engineer >10 years ago. These foreigners are absolutely depressing the wages of native STEM persons.
Edit: my side hustle is handyman activities, Sanjay pays out the nose for those. I'm going to encourage my daughter to get involved in blue collar trades.
Until everything gets shifted into AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, so they can replace you with H1Bs, without it looking like that's what was done.
I agree, but it still funnels people into a few paths, rather than spreading the American employees into different types of work. That still hurts the American worker. That being said, I've always had a job and had always had multiple pending offers to work elsewhere. I just really don't like the employers talking out both sides of their mouth. They have to hire H1Bs, because there is shortage of tech talent. They can't pay well because there are so few jobs and so many people fighting for the jobs. The truth is somewhere in the middle. There are plenty of tech jobs out there that pay well, but H1Bs are definitely flooding the market, lowering wages, and setting a very low bar for how you can treat employees.
Some trades are better than others.
Point being, the diesel world needs good technicians. Car techs arent bad, but how many people will skimp on spending money fixing a car. In the diesel world, businesses NEED that piece of equipment to work and they usually don't care about costs to fix it.
I also have seen plumbers and electricians being high demand and staying that way. I compare these because most plumbers don't invest anywhere near as much as mechanics and still have equal if not higher pay.
Trades are the way to go for a career IMHO.
Plumbing and Electricians are some of the last jobs that will be automated and because those systems are getting more complex and more computerized, you need more skills so it makes it harder to get replaced by illegals or diversity hires.
And most of that work simply can't be automated
Also, aircraft mechanic.
Yes this one as well. And whatever technicians, mechanics or repairers work on oil derricks, i see as always going to be well paid and in demand.
Pretty much anything that you can go to a trade school to learn is a good bet. Certifications are more valuable than degrees now.
Until Sanjay and his Gupta's have the political power to bring in cheaper blue collar skills too.
Us too. Kid hates school anyways.