Title: ONE MILLION OF THE BEST JOBS IN AMERICA MAY GO UNFILLED... Source:
THE LEFSETZ LETTER URL Source:http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ Published:Mar 1, 2013 Author:HOUNDDAWG Post Date:2013-03-01 02:03:01 by HOUNDDAWG Keywords:computers, coding, Midas and Gates, stacks o Views:231 Comments:6
...BECAUSE ONLY 1 in 10 SCHOOLS TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO CODE. (and that blows)
WATCH THE VIDEO AND PASS IT ON or prepare for a million more hungry Indians arriving on H1B Visas!
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"Learn to code online at code.org"
Also, and this is important; feel free to hate on Bob Lefsetz.
I think coding is fantastic. I remember when I first took computer courses and we had to learn DOS (disc operating system), which was way long before WordPerfect, MicroSoft Word, Excel, and other programs came in the picture and the Internet. We had to learn the internal structure of the computer to basic language on programming.
I think every student should be able to learn how to type as well. Bring back those typewriters and WordPak and teach these kids how to spell and apply them in a sentence. We are graduating too many illiterate people who come into college and cannot even write a complete sentence.
They make it look great don't they? The truth is that the companies that create atmospheres like the ones shown in this video are probably 1/2% of the companies out there. The rest are normal businesses, small medium, and large, where your boss expects you to sit behind your computer all day and bang away at code.
While they make it sound like anyone can get a job at the companies in the video, the fact is that they only hire people from the very best colleges. Very few, if any, are hired from your local state college.
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Microsoft comes to Missouri State University every year "looking" for graduates. You know how many they've hired over the years? None. Not a single student. I don't know why they even bother coming. I guess they travel the country going to colleges looking for programming geniuses.
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There are plenty of people to fill those jobs, but corporations want to hire foreigners for far lower wages.
Most coding jobs are not at large corporations. They are at local businesses.
I challenge anyone to go to monster.com or careerbuilder.com and type programmer, software developer, or software engineer into the job title area, and then type in the name of the town they live in. You will see that the overwhelming majority of the jobs are for local companies.
The average pay for a Computer Information Systems and/or Computer Science graduate straight out of college in Springfield, MO is $43,000. That's with no experience but a summer internship. Right now there are no less than 50 local companies in the Springfield, MO area advertising programming positions with Missouri State University.
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown
I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
They make it look great don't they? The truth is that the companies that create atmospheres like the ones shown in this video are probably 1/2% of the companies out there. The rest are normal businesses, small medium, and large, where your boss expects you to sit behind your computer all day and bang away at code.
While they make it sound like anyone can get a job at the companies in the video, the fact is that they only hire people from the very best colleges. Very few, if any, are hired from your local state college.
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Microsoft comes to Missouri State University every year "looking" for graduates. You know how many they've hired over the years? None. Not a single student. I don't know why they even bother coming. I guess they travel the country going to colleges looking for programming geniuses.
When we opened the first microcomputer store in Iowa in 1977 (and obtained the Midwest Apple franchise) there was a gal who worked in our store writing code all day long, day in and day out. She was a contractor and a student and she divided her time between the two tasks.
I don't exactly know what arrangement she had with the boss because she wasn't writing for us or any of our customers.
But, after looking over her materials and watching her slave away for months, I wondered two things: What expectations steered her into her chosen profession, and, would she someday jump out a window?
Of course I was taking a hiatus from the music biz, the road, the non Christian personal manager who had me driving from Orlando to Niagara Falls or Va Beach to New Orleans for five bills a week if I was lucky, and I expected some things to change. But, if I had to type code for a living they'd have prolly found me swinging in a noose someday....
And, I believe that you're correct about the search for the rare genius. One such gifted individual can mean the diff between prospering and expanding in The Valley, or a company's clever logo sought only by e-waste salvage kids who breathe the burning carcinogens to harvest the recyclable lunch munny inside.