Any mom and pop restaurant owner knows more about business than a business major.
I worked for business owner who ran the business the same way his father and grandfather ran the business. One day he learned that he could reduce his liabilities and taxes by incorporating his small business. If he had gone to school and learned about business, he could have incorporated the business earlier and saved himself a significant amount of money. Alas, that change came late in life and the business ended with the third generation as his son was a drug addict.
Probably because computers isn't the money major it used to be. When I saw a study that the IT industry would have 1M+ unfulfilled job openings after baby boomers retire and foreign workers stay home in 2030, I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. Healthcare became the new money major at that time. People told me I was crazy go into computers. My friends who switched from computers to healthcare make great money but they hate their jobs in wiping other people's asses. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my career in IT support and, ironically, hospitals are my best paying contracts.
Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or Austin, Tex., software companies are discovering that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger.ïï Engineers may still command the biggest salaries, but at disruptive juggernauts such as Facebook and Uber, the war for talent has moved to nontechnical jobs, particularly sales and marketing. The more that audacious coders dream of changing the world, the more they need to fill their companies with social alchemists who can connect with customers--and make progress seem pleasant.
Liberal arts grads get 1 math class in their entire 4 years of college and never even take stats or learn regression analysis so those people are just hopeless.
I must have done it wrong when I got my General Ed A.A. degree. I took a ton of business, lit and math courses (including intro calculus). Then again, I wasn't focused on a major because I didn't know what I wanted to do. That came a decade later when I went back to school to get my Computer Programming A.S. degree.
They generally retain none of it except the econometrics bits which they will need in their future jobs as spreadsheet monkeys at finance or consulting cos.
I work in IT support. My number one tool is the spreadsheet. The funny thing is I never learned how to use a spreadsheet at college. I had to teach myself how to become a spreadsheet monkey.
The cost of tuition should be set by a free market engine, not a bunch of government bureaucrats.
You have obviously never bought a textbook that costs more than the actual class. Or sold back a $100 textbook for $5 because the publisher sabotaged the used book value by issuing annual editions with superficial changes. Or paid $85 for a TI graphing calculator because it was required for a mathematics textbook (I owned three different calculators in college). When it comes to textbooks, the free market engine has gone wild.
That must be true. The EE's that I know are in IT, still paying off their student debts, and resentful towards people with less education but more certifications getting promoted above them. A bitter lot.
If you talking about fine arts I guarantee much more money is spent on supplies for their assignments then these lab fees everyone keeps going on and on about.
When I took ceramics for three semesters, everyone paid $10 per semester for two bags of recycled clay. One student was a fine arts major who bought his own porcelain clay ($25 per bag) to make two-foot-tall vases. He probably went through two or three bags per week. His vases went for $75 each at the student art show every semester, and several vases were donated to the campus art gallery.
I paid $10 per semester for two bags of recycled clay when I took ceramics on Saturdays for three semesters. Of course, that was for fun and out of my own pocket. Meanwhile, a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11 paid for computer programming A.S. degree.
According to Trump, 96 million Americans are out of work and need jobs. Start with them. You might have to wait for the child labor and retirement laws are repealed to force the youngest and oldest to work. Should have plenty of people in between those two age groups.
Paying to train employees and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors, or letting the employees cover the cost of that training themselves?
You left out the last part of employees training themselves: "and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors." Either way the employee leaves and the resulting turnover cost more in money to find a replacement than an existing employee.
If that were true it wouldn't be cost effective to export jobs to third world countries.
Manufacturing is returning to the US because it's cheaper than China. The use of automation reduces the amount of labor needed to run the factories here.
For American or foreign workers? When I tried to break into electronic assembly work in Silicon Valley in the 1990's, all the work was done by Filipinos who came over to the U.S. to work these jobs. Being the only white guy in line when a company was hiring, I was told to go away when I asked for an application.
I'm currently going through an old book on compilers and interpreters in Borland C, translating Borland C into modern C and learning Pascal at the same time. With Cygwin installed, I have access to gcc and clang. Seems like the gcc error messages are too cryptic for my taste. I'll give clang a try.
Employers don't train. Never have. Not really their core competency.
That's because bean counters on Wall Street declared training as an unnecessary expense back in the 1980's. Since then it has become the public school system responsibility to train students into employees. If you don't know how to flip burgers out of high school, you're unemployable for the rest of your life.
There's plenty to manufacture, but skilled workers willing to do blue-collar work are hard to find.
Is the problem a lack of skilled workers willing to do the job or employers unwilling to train non-skilled workers?
Based on my experience in Fortune 500 companies, employers are looking for people who already have the necessary job skills and could start without any training. One manager told me that he could train me but it would be a waste of his time as I would only leave to get a better paying job at a competitor. Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and leaving for better paying jobs at competitors anyway.
I wonder if Oracle is following the Cisco model of announcing layoffs of Americans at the front door while bringing in H1B workers through the back door.
[...] the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did.
Except Trump isn't going to bring back the manufacturing jobs of yesteryear. A new factory today will hire a few dozen workers to handle a machine that does the work of 1,500 workers.
Clang compiles code significantly faster than GCC in many cases, still generates slightly better errors and warning messages than GCC, and is usually a bit ahead in terms of support for the C++ standard.
[...] you're one of those so-called "hard core" C guys, who had a look at C++ for 5 minutes back in early-to-mid-nineteen-ninety-whatever, didn't understand it, and decided that therefore it was a stupid language for all time.
That would describe me. When I went looking for a book about compilers, I recently ordered a used copy of "Writing Compilers and Interpreters" by Ronald Mak. I got the 1991 edition because it was written in Borland C and easier to translate into a modern dialect of C. According to the reviews, later editions used C++ that's almost impossible to translate into a modern dialect of C++. Long live C!
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Because Business cant be taught.
Someone should tell the business schools that.
It has to be learnt by working as a businessman.
Just like everything else in life.
Any mom and pop restaurant owner knows more about business than a business major.
I worked for business owner who ran the business the same way his father and grandfather ran the business. One day he learned that he could reduce his liabilities and taxes by incorporating his small business. If he had gone to school and learned about business, he could have incorporated the business earlier and saved himself a significant amount of money. Alas, that change came late in life and the business ended with the third generation as his son was a drug addict.
Probably because computers isn't the money major it used to be. When I saw a study that the IT industry would have 1M+ unfulfilled job openings after baby boomers retire and foreign workers stay home in 2030, I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust. Healthcare became the new money major at that time. People told me I was crazy go into computers. My friends who switched from computers to healthcare make great money but they hate their jobs in wiping other people's asses. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my career in IT support and, ironically, hospitals are my best paying contracts.
Unless, of course, they're in tech.
Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or Austin, Tex., software companies are discovering that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger.ïï Engineers may still command the biggest salaries, but at disruptive juggernauts such as Facebook and Uber, the war for talent has moved to nontechnical jobs, particularly sales and marketing. The more that audacious coders dream of changing the world, the more they need to fill their companies with social alchemists who can connect with customers--and make progress seem pleasant.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/07/29/liberal-arts-degree-tech/
Liberal arts grads get 1 math class in their entire 4 years of college and never even take stats or learn regression analysis so those people are just hopeless.
I must have done it wrong when I got my General Ed A.A. degree. I took a ton of business, lit and math courses (including intro calculus). Then again, I wasn't focused on a major because I didn't know what I wanted to do. That came a decade later when I went back to school to get my Computer Programming A.S. degree.
They generally retain none of it except the econometrics bits which they will need in their future jobs as spreadsheet monkeys at finance or consulting cos.
I work in IT support. My number one tool is the spreadsheet. The funny thing is I never learned how to use a spreadsheet at college. I had to teach myself how to become a spreadsheet monkey.
The cost of tuition should be set by a free market engine, not a bunch of government bureaucrats.
You have obviously never bought a textbook that costs more than the actual class. Or sold back a $100 textbook for $5 because the publisher sabotaged the used book value by issuing annual editions with superficial changes. Or paid $85 for a TI graphing calculator because it was required for a mathematics textbook (I owned three different calculators in college). When it comes to textbooks, the free market engine has gone wild.
That must be true. The EE's that I know are in IT, still paying off their student debts, and resentful towards people with less education but more certifications getting promoted above them. A bitter lot.
If you talking about fine arts I guarantee much more money is spent on supplies for their assignments then these lab fees everyone keeps going on and on about.
When I took ceramics for three semesters, everyone paid $10 per semester for two bags of recycled clay. One student was a fine arts major who bought his own porcelain clay ($25 per bag) to make two-foot-tall vases. He probably went through two or three bags per week. His vases went for $75 each at the student art show every semester, and several vases were donated to the campus art gallery.
I paid $10 per semester for two bags of recycled clay when I took ceramics on Saturdays for three semesters. Of course, that was for fun and out of my own pocket. Meanwhile, a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11 paid for computer programming A.S. degree.
Do we really need more business majors floating around because it was cheaper?
What's wrong with business majors? A solid background in business can help your career in the long run.
Where would we get our indentured servants?
According to Trump, 96 million Americans are out of work and need jobs. Start with them. You might have to wait for the child labor and retirement laws are repealed to force the youngest and oldest to work. Should have plenty of people in between those two age groups.
Paywalled...... Sucks, I would have loved to read that.
Or read it on Yahoo for free.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-factories-working-again-factory-170300301.html
Hubbard made Scientology on a bet, after he claimed he could make a better religion. It sort of "got away from him"... ;-)
Could be worse. I've known some "Jedi Christians" who put Yoda on the cross and worshipped him as a savior. They were a weird bunch in college.
So do the math.
I find your lack of math skills disturbing. ;)
Paying to train employees and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors, or letting the employees cover the cost of that training themselves?
You left out the last part of employees training themselves: "and watching them leave for better paying jobs at competitors." Either way the employee leaves and the resulting turnover cost more in money to find a replacement than an existing employee.
If that were true it wouldn't be cost effective to export jobs to third world countries.
Manufacturing is returning to the US because it's cheaper than China. The use of automation reduces the amount of labor needed to run the factories here.
The estimate is 30,000 to 50,000 new jobs.
For American or foreign workers? When I tried to break into electronic assembly work in Silicon Valley in the 1990's, all the work was done by Filipinos who came over to the U.S. to work these jobs. Being the only white guy in line when a company was hiring, I was told to go away when I asked for an application.
The infrastructure and support staff it takes to manage what the bots are doing takes a little more than "a few dozen workers" in those factories.
Not according to The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-factories-are-working-again-factory-workers-not-so-much-1482080400
It depends on what you're trying to do.
I'm currently going through an old book on compilers and interpreters in Borland C, translating Borland C into modern C and learning Pascal at the same time. With Cygwin installed, I have access to gcc and clang. Seems like the gcc error messages are too cryptic for my taste. I'll give clang a try.
Employers don't train. Never have. Not really their core competency.
That's because bean counters on Wall Street declared training as an unnecessary expense back in the 1980's. Since then it has become the public school system responsibility to train students into employees. If you don't know how to flip burgers out of high school, you're unemployable for the rest of your life.
There's plenty to manufacture, but skilled workers willing to do blue-collar work are hard to find.
Is the problem a lack of skilled workers willing to do the job or employers unwilling to train non-skilled workers?
Based on my experience in Fortune 500 companies, employers are looking for people who already have the necessary job skills and could start without any training. One manager told me that he could train me but it would be a waste of his time as I would only leave to get a better paying job at a competitor. Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and leaving for better paying jobs at competitors anyway.
I wonder if Oracle is following the Cisco model of announcing layoffs of Americans at the front door while bringing in H1B workers through the back door.
[...] the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did.
Except Trump isn't going to bring back the manufacturing jobs of yesteryear. A new factory today will hire a few dozen workers to handle a machine that does the work of 1,500 workers.
Clang compiles code significantly faster than GCC in many cases, still generates slightly better errors and warning messages than GCC, and is usually a bit ahead in terms of support for the C++ standard.
Which compiler is better for Plain Old C?
C++ is also a mess because it has to support backward compatibility for a huge amount of code already written for the industry.
Wouldn't that be a problem for the compiler than the language?
Blaming just the committee for it is ignoring history.
A benevolent dictator could pull a Python by declaring a new version C++ that cleans up the language and is mostly backwards compatible.
Many people worry more about quality control with Indian pharmaceuticals.
My father had no problems with the drugs he ordered from India every six months for five years.
[...] you're one of those so-called "hard core" C guys, who had a look at C++ for 5 minutes back in early-to-mid-nineteen-ninety-whatever, didn't understand it, and decided that therefore it was a stupid language for all time.
That would describe me. When I went looking for a book about compilers, I recently ordered a used copy of "Writing Compilers and Interpreters" by Ronald Mak. I got the 1991 edition because it was written in Borland C and easier to translate into a modern dialect of C. According to the reviews, later editions used C++ that's almost impossible to translate into a modern dialect of C++. Long live C!