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Skip the degree, and start at McDonalds. That way you can save some time getting to your final destination.

If you are in love with Software Development like I am you are screwed. Just shoot yourself while you can or move to India, China, or other cheap currency country.

Basically, the government and media portray a BSCS and 2 years experience as a ticket to making 70k a year (bls.gov Career Guide even now). In the real world this is not the case mainly you will be unemployeed for half of every year and never get to write much code. It's all being done in other countries unless you work is DOD or other government project, that is usually bogged down in corruption (less than 7 lines of code per day - not kidding).

If your a pretender with a BSCS in the U.S. you will do 1 or more of the following:

a. Project Manager = Watch over programmers in India or China
b. U.S. Developer = Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other
c. Programmer Super Star = You give talks about other peoples code
d. Contractor = Become a legal scape goat or give up your civil rights for a corrupt corp or government entity
e. Go back to school for a PhD and teach (As if teaching is like coding)
f. Government Nazi Facist Employee

A real BSCS in the U.S. will do one of the following:

a. Starve on the street while programming at the local library (Been there)
b. Goto jail (Never Convicted, but living without a home leads to all kinds of problems with the new Nazi Police State even when you asleep on the side of a highway)
c. End up with a McJob (Worked at McDonalds and now at a warehouse)
d. Leave the country for a low currency country (You need money for a passport and agree with its terms. Also enough pull and $ to get a job there - I don't so I can't)
e. Commit Suicide (I'm not a quitter.)
f. Give up and become a pretender as stated above (Tried it a little and did not like it so much that I prefer to live on the street than become a scum bag or scape goat)

Go ahead your probably 10 years less experienced than me. Good luck out coding me. Just look at who your competition is that can't even get a real job:

http://www.allbinary.com/resume.doc
http://www.allbinary.com/
http://www.allbinary.com/Freeblisket.jsp

That's right you can't and not in ten years just like most U.S., Indian, or Chinese software programmers/developers/engineers.

Jobs do exist in the U.S., but they are not Programming, Sofware Engineer, or Software Developers even though a job may have that title.

The jobs in IT for the U.S. are:

- Scape Goat
- Goverment Employee
- Pretender - Face to Face service job - Not Outsourced - Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other

Skip the degree, and start at McDonalds. That way you can save some time getting to your final destination.

If you are in love with Software Development like I am you are screwed. Just shoot yourself while you can or move to India, China, or other cheap currency country.

Basically, the government and media portray a BSCS and 2 years experience as a ticket to making 70k a year (bls.gov Career Guide even now). In the real world this is not the case mainly you will be unemployeed for half of every year and never get to write much code. It's all being done in other countries unless you work is DOD or other government project, that is usually bogged down in corruption (less than 7 lines of code per day - not kidding).

If your a pretender with a BSCS in the U.S. you will do 1 or more of the following:

a. Project Manager = Watch over programmers in India or China
b. U.S. Developer = Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other
c. Programmer Super Star = You give talks about other peoples code
d. Contractor = Become a legal scape goat or give up your civil rights for a corrupt corp or government entity
e. Go back to school for a PhD and teach (As if teaching is like coding)
f. Government Nazi Facist Employee

A real BSCS in the U.S. will do one of the following:

a. Starve on the street while programming at the local library (Been there)
b. Goto jail (Never Convicted, but living without a home leads to all kinds of problems with the new Nazi Police State even when you asleep on the side of a highway)
c. End up with a McJob (Worked at McDonalds and now at a warehouse)
d. Leave the country for a low currency country (You need money for a passport and agree with its terms. Also enough pull and $ to get a job there - I don't so I can't)
e. Commit Suicide (I'm not a quitter.)
f. Give up and become a pretender as stated above (Tried it a little and did not like it so much that I prefer to live on the street than become a scum bag or scape goat)

Go ahead your probably 10 years less experienced than me. Good luck out coding me. Just look at who your competition is that can't even get a real job:

http://www.allbinary.com/resume.doc
http://www.allbinary.com/
http://www.allbinary.com/Freeblisket.jsp

That's right you can't and not in ten years just like most U.S., Indian, or Chinese software programmers/developers/engineers.

Jobs do exist in the U.S., but they are not Programming, Sofware Engineer, or Software Developers even though a job may have that title.

The jobs in IT for the U.S. are:

- Scape Goat
- Goverment Employee
- Pretender - Face to Face service job - Not Outsourced - Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other

Skip the degree, and start at McDonalds. That way you can save some time getting to your final destination.

If you are in love with Software Development like I am you are screwed. Just shoot yourself while you can or move to India, China, or other cheap currency country.

Basically, the government and media portray a BSCS and 2 years experience as a ticket to making 70k a year (bls.gov Career Guide even now). In the real world this is not the case mainly you will be unemployeed for half of every year and never get to write much code. It's all being done in other countries unless you work is DOD or other government project, that is usually bogged down in corruption (less than 7 lines of code per day - not kidding).

If your a pretender with a BSCS in the U.S. you will do 1 or more of the following:

a. Project Manager = Watch over programmers in India or China
b. U.S. Developer = Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other
c. Programmer Super Star = You give talks about other peoples code
d. Contractor = Become a legal scape goat or give up your civil rights for a corrupt corp or government entity
e. Go back to school for a PhD and teach (As if teaching is like coding)
f. Government Nazi Facist Employee

A real BSCS in the U.S. will do one of the following:

a. Starve on the street while programming at the local library (Been there)
b. Goto jail (Never Convicted, but living without a home leads to all kinds of problems with the new Nazi Police State even when you asleep on the side of a highway)
c. End up with a McJob (Worked at McDonalds and now at a warehouse)
d. Leave the country for a low currency country (You need money for a passport and agree with its terms. Also enough pull and $ to get a job there - I don't so I can't)
e. Commit Suicide (I'm not a quitter.)
f. Give up and become a pretender as stated above (Tried it a little and did not like it so much that I prefer to live on the street than become a scum bag or scape goat)

Go ahead your probably 10 years less experienced than me. Good luck out coding me. Just look at who your competition is that can't even get a real job:

http://www.allbinary.com/resume.doc
http://www.allbinary.com/
http://www.allbinary.com/Freeblisket.jsp

That's right you can't and not in ten years just like most U.S., Indian, or Chinese software programmers/developers/engineers.

Jobs do exist in the U.S., but they are not Programming, Sofware Engineer, or Software Developers even though a job may have that title.

The jobs in IT for the U.S. are:

- Scape Goat
- Goverment Employee
- Pretender - Face to Face service job - Not Outsourced - Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other

Skip the degree, and start at McDonalds. That way you can save some time getting to your final destination.

If you are in love with Software Development like I am you are screwed. Just shoot yourself while you can or move to India, China, or other cheap currency country.

Basically, the government and media portray a BSCS and 2 years experience as a ticket to making 70k a year (bls.gov Career Guide even now). In the real world this is not the case mainly you will be unemployeed for half of every year and never get to write much code. It's all being done in other countries unless you work is DOD or other government project, that is usually bogged down in corruption (http://www.allbinary.com/resume.doc
http://www.allbinary.com/
http://www.allbinary.com/Freeblisket.jsp

That's right you can't and not in ten years just like most U.S., Indian, or Chinese software programmers/developers/engineers.

Jobs do exist in the U.S., but they are not Programming, Sofware Engineer, or Software Developers even though a job may have that title.

The jobs in IT for the U.S. are:

- Scape Goat
- Goverment Employee
- Pretender - Face to Face service job - Not Outsourced - Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other

Skip the degree, and start at McDonalds. That way you can save some time getting to your final destination.

If you are in love with Software Development like I am you are screwed. Just shoot yourself while you can or move to India, China, or other cheap currency country.

Basically, the government and media portray a BSCS and 2 years experience as a ticket to making 70k a year (bls.gov Career Guide even now). In the real world this is not the case mainly you will be unemployeed for half of every year and never get to write much code. It's all being done in other countries unless you work is DOD or other government project, that is usually bogged down in corruption (http://www.allbinary.com/resume.doc
http://www.allbinary.com/
http://www.allbinary.com/Freeblisket.jsp

That's right you can't and not in ten years just like most U.S., Indian, or Chinese software programmers/developers/engineers.

Jobs do exist in the U.S., but they are not Programming, Sofware Engineer, or Software Developers even though a job may have that title.

The jobs in IT for the U.S. are:

- Scape Goat
- Goverment Employee
- Pretender - Face to Face service job - Not Outsourced - Customer Support, Analyst, Consultant, Tech Support, or Other

No really. http://www.allbinary.com/Freeblisket.jsp has a free webapp that I wrote that has >100k lines of Java, XML, XSL, and more.