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Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future?
nojayuk asks: " Over the decades I've re-skilled myself several times, from mainframe FORTRAN through minicomputer PASCAL to microcomputer C. In between I've done microcontroller development and programming in Assembler, robotics, graphics design and 3-D animation for TV, PC build and repair, Website design etc. Currently I'm looking for work and I'm wondering what new skills do I need to stay in the computing biz. What OSes do I need to know, what technologies do I have to have under my belt for the employers to come hunting for me instead of me passing my obsolete CV around and being told to get lost? I'm looking for advice, not just for next week but for a few years down the line. What can I do to acquire these essential new skills?"
Seriously, Congress has passed a lot of anti-American H1-B bills that are KILLING the tech workers of America.
Unless you want to offer yourself out at the same price as an H1-B: $25,000/year, no benefits, 12 hours+ a day, you're going to have a difficult time finding a job.
The only option is to manage them, and in that case, speaking Hindi would be a valuable asset, as many of them lack the English proficiency to take orders properly -- with one screw up by an H1B, and all hell can break loose.
"Last summer I walked past a DEC/Compaq/HP department picknic - no one there was over 40 and no one there spoke English as a native language"
How do you know their native langauges? Did you speak to all of them or is that just a racist generalisation?
BTW, since you're so up-to-date, you might note it's been a loooong time since any DEC department held a picnic.