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India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers
MaximusTheGreat writes: "IHT and Financial Express report that many qualified Western professionals are moving to India for jobs. Two of the most common reasons mentioned are adding the Indian experience to the CV and search of better opportunities in a booming Indian economy. According to a Mumbai based head hunting firm, "A lot of the highly qualified talent has traditionally been mobile and attracted to centers of excellence globally. This was true of the US in the early 80s when top flight talent from India migrated in search of better opportunities. Today, the same is happening to economies such as India and China" This should also bust the myth that foreigners are not allowed work in India."
I don't mean to hurt your sentiments, but honestly, post 9/11, I can't say that America's any safer than India. The way your economy's going, and with all those protectionist "patriotic" laws and ignorance and hatred against non-Americans, I think an American will be far safer in India than an Indian is in America.
You're most welcome to come and work in my country. Heck, my president is a scientist, and your president is a maniac! :-)
Markets don't maximize freedom, they maximize productivity. If the market weren't driving people to DO, then everyone would sit on their ass and get a lot less accomplished. You'd have a situation reminiscent of the Soviet Union, where people had a hard time getting enough to eat, never mind other consumer goods.
Freedom is a joke, do you think being a wage slave is freedom? It's the only way to extract reasonable amounts of effort from an apathetic public.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
First of all, a 4 year degree in Comp Sci is basically worthless in the USA right now. If you go for CS, understand that you will have to get a graduate degree unless you think PC Repair or telephone tech support is a great career for a college grad.
Secondly, it's sort of an empty discipline. By that I mean that at the end of a very successful day, all you really achieve is a contribution to somebody else's geekiness; now they can make misogynist jokes and jerk off to internet porn. In rare circumstances, you really do make a substantial positive difference in someone else's life, but let's be serious. The world would be just fine without Mozilla, Winamp, Apache, Linux, Unix, IBM, Sun, and last but not least Microsoft. I'm not saying these are modern demons, but compare CS to disciplines like political science, diplomacy, theology, ethics, etc. where you are seriously working at improving someone's life, not their leisure. Even if you prove that NP = P, get over yourself. That's about the most goddamn geeky thing you could do with your life except maybe being the Magic: The Gathering grand champion.
A computer science degree isn't the most portable thing in the world. Yes, you become an expert at algorithms and problem solving (IF you get a graduate degree) but other than that, you're pretty much an expert at reading technical documents and making instructions. That's not exactly the type of guy who gets hired for interdisciplinary management positions. Even if you do become an expert at problem solving, I haven't yet heard anyone say, "This is a serious [logistics/management/organizational/opportunity] problem, get me a COMPSCI GRAD!"
I went into CS in 1998 and got my BS in 2002. Note the years: I chose CS 2 years before the .com bust and graduated 2 years later, give or take a few months. I didn't choose CS for the money but rather because I love the study and the process. It's like in the movie Good Will Hunting (not that I'm a super genius or anything) - I look at the stuff and it just makes sense to me in a way that no other subject ever has. Plus, it was a good career at the time.
Now I'm basically a master of the Rubix cube and I'll have to move to a 3rd world country that may or may not have hostility toward my citizenship if I want to one day purchase a new economy car. I can't tell you whether or not EE is a better field, but for God's sake man, do not enter computer science at this time. If a genie gave me 1 wish in this life, I would go back to my freshman year of undergrad and choose a different field. I'd still be a computer geek, but you don't have to spend $150,000 on education to program, you go to Barnes & Noble and spend a couple hundred on books. It's far better to be an amateur hacker with a degree in business, in my humble but definitely qualified opinion.
Considering that your username is from an '80s cartoon, I would wager that you're a loner, nerd type, probably not used to dealing with "real" women.
You probably spend a lot of time fantasizing about going to a poor, 3rd world nation where you can start over again and pick up the local women who are clearly, in your mind, not as sophisticated or discerning as "real" women.
Stay anonymous. It proves my theory.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
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It's propaganda plain and simple.