Are the big keywords I search for. Python, Matlab, Data Analytics all turn up noise. Also a smattering of SQL, Linux, Cloud, etc knowledge that really isn't relevant to the jobs I apply to but has definitely come in handy.
What area of the country you are in.
Flyover Country. But I've found and applied to jobs across the US.
Your age.
Closer to 40 than 30.
Where did you get your degree.
Big 10.
Now, are there any details that could guide me on what skills I'm missing? Nope!
The right place to live is where the job is. Our ancestors followed the food out of Africa. Grandpa went where the CCC said there was work. If you plant your feet and whine there aren't any jobs it's not the job's problem, it's yours.
Maybe you're lying about the skills you do have, or at least stretching the truth lots.
Then maybe you should have thought about that when you decided to never learn anything new on the job. I could word my resume any number of a dozen different ways depending on what the job position asked for. But that meant going above and beyond showing up to work every day.
I volunteered for new projects. I learned how to do skill X and apply it to my desk job.
Getting a college degree doesn't set you for life. It gives you a bit of breathing room and a head start until the rest of the world catches up. I graduated ~15 years ago. There is a clear divide between type A and type B workers.
Type A seems to be the loudest that everyone is stealing their job. They can't find any jobs with their skill sets. A has sat on their hands for the last decade and turned the crank and nothing more. Forget Indians, Jenkins is stealing their jobs daily. We used to build software manually. If your only skillset you picked up is how to compile software, flash and test it your job relevancy is fading fast.
Type B took on new opportunities. They didn't see a new technology as 'stealing' their job they used it to supplement their work. They stayed up to date on which direction their industry was going.
When faced with being replaced by computers Dorthy Vaughan and other 'human computers' stepped up operate the computers. I wonder if her peers that didn't sat around complaining about electrons stealing their jobs.
Really? Then why is it when I change my status on LinkedIn to 'looking' I get hounded by recruiters? Why did it take applying to all of a single job listing to find a new job?
Maybe 90% of the companies you apply to toss your resume because you don't have anything relevant on there. Any number of my peers could find a job with out any problems.
Then explain the multiple open job positions posted all across the country on job sites. It took me all of a week to find a new job in the 6-figure range. Yes there are Indians that claim they'll do it for $20k a year and companies get what they pay for.
Have you considered that you don't have modern, relevant job skills if someone in India is taking them?
And that is why stories like this are going to continue. If you insist that writing some Python is something that requires a BS you're going to get outsourced and replaced.
I could teach a high school dropout to do 50% of my job. Even if all it started out as was filling functions with a standard documentation format and moved from there.
Every single other profession has 'lower level' employees that do a large portion of the grunt work. You think healthcare is expensive in the US now? Imagine how much it would cost if you insisted it took 12 years of education to put in an IV.
Even our Cisco chat tool is just XMPP underneath. It makes it easy to integrate into a host of services. IBM's "Sametime" is also in libpurple. I've used both and they're fairly good. At the minimum I can at least use my own chat client.
CS != Programming. There is an entire job market for 'hands on coders'. CS majors insisted the only path to being a 'programmer' was through college and that's not at all true.
When we pushed everyone to college we neglected the VocTech trades and that is the shortage they are talking about. When you build a house you reach a point where more engineers isn't going to get it built faster or better. On the Mechanical Engineering side of my job our technicians are invaluable. Most didn't go to college. Most just have some 6-12 week training in some particular skill. But when the engineers need something done they're the ones that actually get it implemented.
I'm dying for programmers at work. I wish I could hire a dozen HS dropouts with 12 weeks of Python training. I don't need a CS major. You're dead right that they're too expensive. They also know too much and not what the job needs. For the same reason I'm not going to go out and hire a dozen physicists when I need a house built.
Like how we used to do it for thousands of years? We always joked that engineers died of boredom within a few years of retiring.
I interned with a company that had 3 senior citizens in the back. They used to work at Ratheon and wanted to keep working. They sat in back talking about their grand kids listening to oldies soldering PCBs. They had near perfect hand eye coordination for their demographic.
Microsoft the Gold Standard. I've worked two places that are looking at Azure and it's made using Linux actually easier.
"Hey boss, I need some cheap servers to test something out, I can do it with Microsoft". We get billed. I get to use Linux. The company gets "Microsoft".
The tech companies are going to be in for an entertaining world of hurt if they think they can just show up and start cranking out products the way they've always done it.
Automotive, industrial, aerospace, rail and other 'life and limb' companies have done things their own way for a while for a reason. We have functional safety standards that have no 'tech company' equivalent (that I've seen). ISO 26262, IEC 61508, DO-178C, ASIL A-D, etc. From what I've found Intel and AMD don't have any chips that meet those standards.
Your phone crashes you file a bug report. Grandma crashes and dies and it's not just 'file a bug report'. The German automakers have been working on all of this stuff for a while. In grad school years ago we had some researchers from VW come in and show off all of their collision avoidance designs. I rented cars in Germany that had the auto-stop feature that didn't show up in the states until years later.
They're not just patenting stuff, they're implementing it. The difference between them and Tesla is they're very reserved in what they say it can and can't do and don't call their shots before they make them. Tesla drives up hype says what they will do and hopes they can deliver.
You think Cummins and Benz heard about the Tesla truck announcement and threw together a full prototype in a month to beat them to the punch? People are naive if they don't think that everyone is working on the exact same self driving features Tesla is. They're just not as vocal about it.
If you want to know what those companies are and when they got their start, look for the logos plastered all over the DARPA 2004/2005 vehicles. It's not like they grabbed their $1M, split it up, patted themselves on the back and forgot about the technology. All of those grad students got hired on. Startups that formed out of it got bought up by bigger players. We've all been working on this stuff, together, behind the scenes getting it right and testing it off line before we brag to the local newspaper.
The truth is that you have to keep your skill set current.
This has been my experience. If you spend 20 years complaining about 'flavor of the week' technologies you're going to find that industry and technology has shifted from under you.
How many job openings have people seen lately for mechanical paper drafters?
And I've assumed there's been one there since the 90s.
> beyond that is just invasive.
Unless you're off grid you should realize you're being tracked, constantly. Power bill, credit cards, etc. But if you think not getting an Echo saves you somehow, It'd be nice to be that naive.
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require lots of extra hours
I guess they might if you're slow. It's more 'get your work done' not "Sit in a desk for 40 hours" style job.
a very broad yet specialized skill set,
Define broad and specialized.
lots of stress?
Not in the least.
What should I tell my "old" co-workers? People that also stayed up to date with relevant technology?
No. Working on actual projects incorporating new skills.
"Hey analyze these million files, I don't care how you do it"
"I wonder what sort of analysis tools Python has" "Hrm, I wonder if I could use Jenkins to automate batch running of analysis".
Tada. New resume buzz words.
Your skillset.
Are the big keywords I search for. Python, Matlab, Data Analytics all turn up noise. Also a smattering of SQL, Linux, Cloud, etc knowledge that really isn't relevant to the jobs I apply to but has definitely come in handy.
What area of the country you are in.
Flyover Country. But I've found and applied to jobs across the US.
Your age.
Closer to 40 than 30.
Where did you get your degree.
Big 10.
Now, are there any details that could guide me on what skills I'm missing? Nope!
Well, I don't know what skills you have.
live in the right place.
The right place to live is where the job is. Our ancestors followed the food out of Africa. Grandpa went where the CCC said there was work. If you plant your feet and whine there aren't any jobs it's not the job's problem, it's yours.
Maybe you're lying about the skills you do have, or at least stretching the truth lots.
Or actually have relevant skills.
Then maybe you should have thought about that when you decided to never learn anything new on the job. I could word my resume any number of a dozen different ways depending on what the job position asked for. But that meant going above and beyond showing up to work every day.
I volunteered for new projects. I learned how to do skill X and apply it to my desk job.
Getting a college degree doesn't set you for life. It gives you a bit of breathing room and a head start until the rest of the world catches up. I graduated ~15 years ago. There is a clear divide between type A and type B workers.
Type A seems to be the loudest that everyone is stealing their job. They can't find any jobs with their skill sets. A has sat on their hands for the last decade and turned the crank and nothing more. Forget Indians, Jenkins is stealing their jobs daily. We used to build software manually. If your only skillset you picked up is how to compile software, flash and test it your job relevancy is fading fast.
Type B took on new opportunities. They didn't see a new technology as 'stealing' their job they used it to supplement their work. They stayed up to date on which direction their industry was going.
When faced with being replaced by computers Dorthy Vaughan and other 'human computers' stepped up operate the computers. I wonder if her peers that didn't sat around complaining about electrons stealing their jobs.
Really? Then why is it when I change my status on LinkedIn to 'looking' I get hounded by recruiters? Why did it take applying to all of a single job listing to find a new job?
Maybe 90% of the companies you apply to toss your resume because you don't have anything relevant on there. Any number of my peers could find a job with out any problems.
Then explain the multiple open job positions posted all across the country on job sites. It took me all of a week to find a new job in the 6-figure range. Yes there are Indians that claim they'll do it for $20k a year and companies get what they pay for.
Have you considered that you don't have modern, relevant job skills if someone in India is taking them?
And that is why stories like this are going to continue. If you insist that writing some Python is something that requires a BS you're going to get outsourced and replaced.
I could teach a high school dropout to do 50% of my job. Even if all it started out as was filling functions with a standard documentation format and moved from there.
Every single other profession has 'lower level' employees that do a large portion of the grunt work. You think healthcare is expensive in the US now? Imagine how much it would cost if you insisted it took 12 years of education to put in an IV.
Doctor:Physician's Assistant:Nurse:Orderly :: Engineer:Technologist:Technician:"Wrench Monkey :: CS Major: Programmer: Code Monkey.
Even our Cisco chat tool is just XMPP underneath. It makes it easy to integrate into a host of services. IBM's "Sametime" is also in libpurple. I've used both and they're fairly good. At the minimum I can at least use my own chat client.
CS != Programming. There is an entire job market for 'hands on coders'. CS majors insisted the only path to being a 'programmer' was through college and that's not at all true.
When we pushed everyone to college we neglected the VocTech trades and that is the shortage they are talking about. When you build a house you reach a point where more engineers isn't going to get it built faster or better. On the Mechanical Engineering side of my job our technicians are invaluable. Most didn't go to college. Most just have some 6-12 week training in some particular skill. But when the engineers need something done they're the ones that actually get it implemented.
I'm dying for programmers at work. I wish I could hire a dozen HS dropouts with 12 weeks of Python training. I don't need a CS major. You're dead right that they're too expensive. They also know too much and not what the job needs. For the same reason I'm not going to go out and hire a dozen physicists when I need a house built.
Like how we used to do it for thousands of years? We always joked that engineers died of boredom within a few years of retiring.
I interned with a company that had 3 senior citizens in the back. They used to work at Ratheon and wanted to keep working. They sat in back talking about their grand kids listening to oldies soldering PCBs. They had near perfect hand eye coordination for their demographic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Microsoft changing their game plan now that Balmer is gone?
Microsoft the Gold Standard. I've worked two places that are looking at Azure and it's made using Linux actually easier.
"Hey boss, I need some cheap servers to test something out, I can do it with Microsoft". We get billed. I get to use Linux. The company gets "Microsoft".
Elon through a tantrum
Is he channeling his inner Steve Jobs? Jobs did the same thing to ATI when they screwed up and leaked specs of unreleased Macs.
The tech companies are going to be in for an entertaining world of hurt if they think they can just show up and start cranking out products the way they've always done it.
Automotive, industrial, aerospace, rail and other 'life and limb' companies have done things their own way for a while for a reason. We have functional safety standards that have no 'tech company' equivalent (that I've seen). ISO 26262, IEC 61508, DO-178C, ASIL A-D, etc. From what I've found Intel and AMD don't have any chips that meet those standards.
Your phone crashes you file a bug report. Grandma crashes and dies and it's not just 'file a bug report'. The German automakers have been working on all of this stuff for a while. In grad school years ago we had some researchers from VW come in and show off all of their collision avoidance designs. I rented cars in Germany that had the auto-stop feature that didn't show up in the states until years later.
They're not just patenting stuff, they're implementing it. The difference between them and Tesla is they're very reserved in what they say it can and can't do and don't call their shots before they make them. Tesla drives up hype says what they will do and hopes they can deliver.
You think Cummins and Benz heard about the Tesla truck announcement and threw together a full prototype in a month to beat them to the punch? People are naive if they don't think that everyone is working on the exact same self driving features Tesla is. They're just not as vocal about it.
If you want to know what those companies are and when they got their start, look for the logos plastered all over the DARPA 2004/2005 vehicles. It's not like they grabbed their $1M, split it up, patted themselves on the back and forgot about the technology. All of those grad students got hired on. Startups that formed out of it got bought up by bigger players. We've all been working on this stuff, together, behind the scenes getting it right and testing it off line before we brag to the local newspaper.
CS : Software Engineering : Coders :: Physics : Mechanical Engineering : Engineering Technologists.
Having more head chefs in the kitchen doesn't get the food out faster.
The 1st Amendment means that you can say what you want and not get arrested by the government.
"Free Speech" is concept that is older than the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some people believe that it is an intrinsic human right that goes beyond what the constitution or any one nation state's laws.
It's used by nearly everyone in automotive embedded. And industrial. And aerospace.
It's used for making control models.
What was your thesis in that you weren't experienced with Simulink already and that you thought it slowed you down?
"Mumbai" looks a lot like rural Michigan to me. I didn't even need a passport to get in here.
Not even close. Its used more, especially if you're in quite a few industries.
Unless another MBD tool comes along to do embedded controllers work nothing's going to replace it.
The truth is that you have to keep your skill set current.
This has been my experience. If you spend 20 years complaining about 'flavor of the week' technologies you're going to find that industry and technology has shifted from under you.
How many job openings have people seen lately for mechanical paper drafters?
There is no good software for presentations on Linux that compares to Keynote or PowerPoint.
Jupyter Notebooks presentation mode is great.
It is lacking in key features like "Word Art", but for a technical presentation it's pretty good.
> a continuous listening device in my home
And I've assumed there's been one there since the 90s.
> beyond that is just invasive.
Unless you're off grid you should realize you're being tracked, constantly. Power bill, credit cards, etc. But if you think not getting an Echo saves you somehow, It'd be nice to be that naive.