For whatever reason, the vast majority of Americans do not seem to particularly favor staying in school for grad school.
That would be because American companies don't provide financial incentive to get/have an advanced degree. And they certainly don't spend a dime developing their people. (Why bother...they're just going to outsource and fire them all anyway. Of course once they get their 10th broken, crappy build from India in a month, they realize they just fired everyone who knew anything and those folks' knowledge is lost forever....)
I've maneuvered my way to a 6 figure salary with just a BSCE. Why should I bother getting a Master's? Not one company has turned me down for not having one. And not one company has offered to pay for me to get one. And I'm supposed to drop $25K-$50K to get a $3K/yr raise at most?! Not hardly.
The reason companies don't invest in their people: They can import slaves -- I mean H-1b visa holders -- at half the cost of an American. If Congress weren't prostrating itself to companies, they might actually value their employees as a valuable asset, not a disposable wipe.
The most ambitious and wily American workers have either found a lucrative niche or have started their own company. The bulk of the rest of the American programmers are doing good work day-in and day-out keeping the business going despite the suits' moronic mistakes.
Don't believe it's about paying lower wages? Then why am I sitting here looking at the code of an H-1Ber that looks like this?
String ss = ""; ss = new String("Error:" + errormessage);
Yeah...it's all about the higher quality from foreign workers against bad American programmers...riiiiiiiight....
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For whatever reason, the vast majority of Americans do not seem to particularly favor staying in school for grad school.
That would be because American companies don't provide financial incentive to get/have an advanced degree. And they certainly don't spend a dime developing their people. (Why bother...they're just going to outsource and fire them all anyway. Of course once they get their 10th broken, crappy build from India in a month, they realize they just fired everyone who knew anything and those folks' knowledge is lost forever....)
I've maneuvered my way to a 6 figure salary with just a BSCE. Why should I bother getting a Master's? Not one company has turned me down for not having one. And not one company has offered to pay for me to get one. And I'm supposed to drop $25K-$50K to get a $3K/yr raise at most?! Not hardly.
The reason companies don't invest in their people: They can import slaves -- I mean H-1b visa holders -- at half the cost of an American. If Congress weren't prostrating itself to companies, they might actually value their employees as a valuable asset, not a disposable wipe.
The most ambitious and wily American workers have either found a lucrative niche or have started their own company. The bulk of the rest of the American programmers are doing good work day-in and day-out keeping the business going despite the suits' moronic mistakes.
Don't believe it's about paying lower wages? Then why am I sitting here looking at the code of an H-1Ber that looks like this?
Yeah...it's all about the higher quality from foreign workers against bad American programmers...riiiiiiiight....