I had to take care of my late father for two months after he had an episode that pushed him from pre-diabetic to diabetic and an extended stay at the hospital. I took him to a nutritional class that his doctor ordered. The instructor warned us that food labeled "healthy" are often less healthy than the regular food and check the labels to compare the differences. Food companies often compensate for something else to make a food product more healthier.
You are an old timer and you started when there were more opportunities and when it was so much easier to get into this field.
Try getting an entry level job without a high school diploma while possessing an associate degree. I worked at a restaurant for three years after college before I got an "internship" at a tech company that could afford to hire a full time staff member. Once I got that feather in my cap, a lack of high school diploma stopped being an issue.
It's boring and monotonous.
That's where the money is if you can improve the process by doing it differently or automating it.
There's no room for advancement, either.
Change jobs.
Also the pay sucks too.
Seriously, change jobs.
I've done some of my own projects to try to show I can do more and nobody cares. It only counts if you've done it on the job.
That's why you need to go out of your way to do a special project on the job. I did a PC refresh project at a local hospital. The IT manager had a large storage room that no one had seen the floor for eight years. I moved my desk into that storage room. Over a six-week period in between tickets, I cleaned out that storage room, sent much of the old equipment to recycler, the rest into the warehouse cage, and had facilities cleaned the floor. The IT manager was so happy to get back usable spacey.
I just hope I can win the lotto and someday do what I want. I REALLY hate work.
When God hands out lemons, you can either make lemonade or suck your lemons with salt and tequila. I make lemonade all the time.
I had several friends who abandoned tech for healthcare because it pays more. Years later... They make more money than me, but hate their jobs and the patients. Ironically, I enjoy my technical career and my best paying contracts has been for hospitals.
No site licence needed to learn/teach C++. gcc is free (and runs on windows too, not only linux).
According to the surveys that the college sent out to the surrounding Silicon Valley companies, employers wanted Visual Studio for their C++ programmers. Administration had declared that C++ can't be taught without Visual Studio. The dean taught C++ with gcc in his Linux Admin classes. When the college renewed the Microsoft site license, Visual Studio.NET refused to run on the older computers. The dean had everyone boot into Linux and taught the C++ class with gcc instead, as the textbook was compiler neutral.
Some traditional "country club" Republican strongholds, like Orange County California, voted for Clinton.
The California GOP has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. The city of Santa Ana in Orange County is 78% Latino. They voted for Clinton.
Here's the trend I'm seeing - unless you have the talent to go to Stanford, MIT or some other top school, you're not going to have much of a career here as an American.
I graduated from the eighth grade with fifth grade math and writing skills, and college-level reading comprehension. I never went to high school. When I entered the community college, it took two years of remedial classes and two years of college classes to graduate with an A.A. degree in General Ed. A decade later I would go back to get an A.S. in Computer Programming and make the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. I'm in my 22th year of my technical career.
Once you're in test or support, you're stuck there.
What's wrong with test or support? I've done software testing for six years, help desk support for six years, PC refresh projects and built out data centers on short-term contracts, and I'm currently doing computer security for government IT. These are not glamorous jobs (a.k.a., virtual ditch digging) but someone has to do them.
Because that has exactly the same purpose as H1-B visas: the more programmers competing for jobs, the lower the wages that corporations can pay those programmers.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming, I had to learn every flavor of Java because the CIS department couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio to teach C++. While looking at catalogs for other community colleges, I discovered that they were pumping out Java programmers as fast as they can. When something becomes a commodity, it's time to shift gears into something more profitable. After I graduated with my programming degree, I went into IT field to apply my programming knowledge. Today I'm doing computer security in a job that required 10+ years of IT experience. I've never met an H1B person with 10+ years of experience.
Well, then I suggest you stop smoking whatever it is you're smoking and actually read up on the history of racism, segregation, and eugenics and their relationship to the Democratic party and progressivism, as well as favorite policies of the left, like gun control, minimum wage, unions, welfare, and public funding of abortions. It's not pretty.
You're overlooking the fact that all the racists from the Democratic Party joined the Republican Party in the 1960's and Richard Nixon used the "Southern Strategy" to convince poor whites to vote against their own interests by threatening them with the dangerous non-whites. Back then it was criminal blacks and liberated women. Today it's job stealing Mexicans and terrorist Muslims. Trump is the final beneficiary of a dying political strategy.
I was explaining to you that my experience with "diversity" goes a lot further than yours and that I have absolutely no problem with diversity.
You "diversity" as you wrote in the previous comment suggested that slept your way through the world. I fail to see why you would think I would be interested in that. As a Christian, I find life easier and less messier to keep my pants zipped up.
A "minority-majority" is a Democratic political strategy, an attempt to divide America artificially into minorities and then foment resentment and distrust between them. It's a great way for a ruling elite to stay in power: divide and conquer. It's pretty much the same last time Democrats tried this, when they brought us Jim Crow laws, eugenics, and forced sterilizations. Hopefully, by 2050, we will look back at Democratic policies today with the same revulsion that we now look back on early 20th century progressivism.
As we say in California, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
I've lived all over the world and have had boyfriends among all the major "races" that progressive Americans are so fond of dividing people into. Does that assuage your race-obsessed little mind?
Consitutional amendments are too uncommon after all, though it has been 45 years since the last successful one was submitted.
You're overlooking the 27th Amendment regarding laws affecting congressional salaries that got ratified in 1992. That one only took 202 years, seven months and ten days.
Yes: you view everybody around you through the lens of race.
Demographics, not race. I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust in 2001. People told me I was crazy to get into computers. But I read a demographic study that showed that skilled IT workers would be in high demand as baby boomers retire in the future. I'm enjoying my career in IT. Next set of demographic milestones is the baby boomers being retired in 2030 and America becoming a minority-majority country in 2050.
Well, both the election and polls suggest otherwise.
This election is the tip of the iceberg. Are you prepare for the changes to come?
The Republicans couldn't get past the fact that a "D" came after his name on the ballot. Never mind that he implemented much of the Republican agenda overt heir strident obstructionism.
That's because this election was about demographics. In 2050, America will be a minority-majority country. California today is already a minority-majority state. Time Magazine had an influential cover in 1993 that described this demographic trend in one blended image.
If you think that's bad, try out 2030 when all the baby boomers are retired, the work force (tax base) is significantly smaller, and Social Security/Medicare will consume two-thirds of the federal budget. Taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else.
Plus the inevitable virtue signaling.
The demographic trends are clear. You can change or not change. If you want to bitch about it, I'm not going to tell you to shut up. I'm too busy moving forward with the rest of America.
But the way to start is by working towards a Constitutional amendment, not by changing the rules after the election.
If the electors pick Clinton over Trump, that's not changing the rules after the election. It's part of the process. If that does happen (unlikely as it might be), I'm sure more people would be favorable to abolishing the Electoral College.
In other words, it's about the culture war, and I'm very glad to see it won at the ballot box - we really don't want to let it go further, which is exactly what I fear of DC plays some trick to say "no, you flyover people still don't matter, even when you vote".
An article I've read accused Hillary of running a campaign for the 2050 election, which is when the majority of the country will be brown. That's not a problem that can't be fixed at the ballot box. White people need to have more babies or accept the change in the power structure. As a white Californian, I've already made the transition in Silicon Valley. I see that as a strength and not a weakness.
Maybe the problem is with you rather than with your relatives?
My relatives live in Idaho. If they want to see a Mexican, they got to the Mexican restaurant. If they want to see a Chinese, they got to laundromat. If they want to see a Black, they go to the rodeo to see him riding a horse and telling off-color jokes. Meanwhile, I see all these people when I get on the bus in Silicon Valley and the only white people I know are out of state coworkers. Which one of us is "normal" in today's America?
The historic mistake was nominating Hillary Clinton, a corrupt, incompetent war monger. The electoral college can't fix that.
The historic mistake is for the Republican Party to nominate Donald Trump who is not a Republican, not a conservative and who has zero experience in public office. The other 15 candidates for the Republican nomination weren't any better. I changed my party registration to Democrat over a year ago when that circus came to town.
What would be really cool would be for California to secede, and have Mexico invade and take California back.
I wouldn't have a problem with that. I have a Mexican uncle. If you want to get ahead in Mexico, you need a Mexican uncle to help open doors for you. If you don't have a Mexican uncle, move to the U.S. and have babies.
never. because if it went away, then all states outside of California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan would basically never have a say.
Or the smaller states can increase their population rate. That's what this election was really about: white people not making enough babies to keep immigration in check, and people fleeing the rural areas for the cities.
One could readily interpret your original statement as others already have.
What I thought I wrote and what my fingers actually typed are not quite the same. I meant that the discussion to change the electoral college should begin now while the issue is still relevant.
I thought the Supreme Court decision was correct. If Al Gore had called for a state recount instead of focusing on a few counties in Florida, he might have won the electoral college.
If you really care about the process, not the winner, change the rules at a time when your guy will lose as a result.
The Democrats lost to the electoral college despite wining the popular twice (2000 and 2016). That's not normal by historical standards.
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I had to take care of my late father for two months after he had an episode that pushed him from pre-diabetic to diabetic and an extended stay at the hospital. I took him to a nutritional class that his doctor ordered. The instructor warned us that food labeled "healthy" are often less healthy than the regular food and check the labels to compare the differences. Food companies often compensate for something else to make a food product more healthier.
You are an old timer and you started when there were more opportunities and when it was so much easier to get into this field.
Try getting an entry level job without a high school diploma while possessing an associate degree. I worked at a restaurant for three years after college before I got an "internship" at a tech company that could afford to hire a full time staff member. Once I got that feather in my cap, a lack of high school diploma stopped being an issue.
It's boring and monotonous.
That's where the money is if you can improve the process by doing it differently or automating it.
There's no room for advancement, either.
Change jobs.
Also the pay sucks too.
Seriously, change jobs.
I've done some of my own projects to try to show I can do more and nobody cares. It only counts if you've done it on the job.
That's why you need to go out of your way to do a special project on the job. I did a PC refresh project at a local hospital. The IT manager had a large storage room that no one had seen the floor for eight years. I moved my desk into that storage room. Over a six-week period in between tickets, I cleaned out that storage room, sent much of the old equipment to recycler, the rest into the warehouse cage, and had facilities cleaned the floor. The IT manager was so happy to get back usable spacey.
I just hope I can win the lotto and someday do what I want. I REALLY hate work.
When God hands out lemons, you can either make lemonade or suck your lemons with salt and tequila. I make lemonade all the time.
To heck with sexy tech, show me the money.
I had several friends who abandoned tech for healthcare because it pays more. Years later... They make more money than me, but hate their jobs and the patients. Ironically, I enjoy my technical career and my best paying contracts has been for hospitals.
No site licence needed to learn/teach C++. gcc is free (and runs on windows too, not only linux).
According to the surveys that the college sent out to the surrounding Silicon Valley companies, employers wanted Visual Studio for their C++ programmers. Administration had declared that C++ can't be taught without Visual Studio. The dean taught C++ with gcc in his Linux Admin classes. When the college renewed the Microsoft site license, Visual Studio .NET refused to run on the older computers. The dean had everyone boot into Linux and taught the C++ class with gcc instead, as the textbook was compiler neutral.
Some traditional "country club" Republican strongholds, like Orange County California, voted for Clinton.
The California GOP has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population. The city of Santa Ana in Orange County is 78% Latino. They voted for Clinton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/us/california-latino-voters.html?_r=0
Here's the trend I'm seeing - unless you have the talent to go to Stanford, MIT or some other top school, you're not going to have much of a career here as an American.
I graduated from the eighth grade with fifth grade math and writing skills, and college-level reading comprehension. I never went to high school. When I entered the community college, it took two years of remedial classes and two years of college classes to graduate with an A.A. degree in General Ed. A decade later I would go back to get an A.S. in Computer Programming and make the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. I'm in my 22th year of my technical career.
Once you're in test or support, you're stuck there.
What's wrong with test or support? I've done software testing for six years, help desk support for six years, PC refresh projects and built out data centers on short-term contracts, and I'm currently doing computer security for government IT. These are not glamorous jobs (a.k.a., virtual ditch digging) but someone has to do them.
Because that has exactly the same purpose as H1-B visas: the more programmers competing for jobs, the lower the wages that corporations can pay those programmers.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming, I had to learn every flavor of Java because the CIS department couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio to teach C++. While looking at catalogs for other community colleges, I discovered that they were pumping out Java programmers as fast as they can. When something becomes a commodity, it's time to shift gears into something more profitable. After I graduated with my programming degree, I went into IT field to apply my programming knowledge. Today I'm doing computer security in a job that required 10+ years of IT experience. I've never met an H1B person with 10+ years of experience.
Well, then I suggest you stop smoking whatever it is you're smoking and actually read up on the history of racism, segregation, and eugenics and their relationship to the Democratic party and progressivism, as well as favorite policies of the left, like gun control, minimum wage, unions, welfare, and public funding of abortions. It's not pretty.
You're overlooking the fact that all the racists from the Democratic Party joined the Republican Party in the 1960's and Richard Nixon used the "Southern Strategy" to convince poor whites to vote against their own interests by threatening them with the dangerous non-whites. Back then it was criminal blacks and liberated women. Today it's job stealing Mexicans and terrorist Muslims. Trump is the final beneficiary of a dying political strategy.
I was explaining to you that my experience with "diversity" goes a lot further than yours and that I have absolutely no problem with diversity.
You "diversity" as you wrote in the previous comment suggested that slept your way through the world. I fail to see why you would think I would be interested in that. As a Christian, I find life easier and less messier to keep my pants zipped up.
A "minority-majority" is a Democratic political strategy, an attempt to divide America artificially into minorities and then foment resentment and distrust between them. It's a great way for a ruling elite to stay in power: divide and conquer. It's pretty much the same last time Democrats tried this, when they brought us Jim Crow laws, eugenics, and forced sterilizations. Hopefully, by 2050, we will look back at Democratic policies today with the same revulsion that we now look back on early 20th century progressivism.
As we say in California, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
I've lived all over the world and have had boyfriends among all the major "races" that progressive Americans are so fond of dividing people into. Does that assuage your race-obsessed little mind?
Your statement makes no sense whatsoever.
Consitutional amendments are too uncommon after all, though it has been 45 years since the last successful one was submitted.
You're overlooking the 27th Amendment regarding laws affecting congressional salaries that got ratified in 1992. That one only took 202 years, seven months and ten days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Yes: you view everybody around you through the lens of race.
Demographics, not race. I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust in 2001. People told me I was crazy to get into computers. But I read a demographic study that showed that skilled IT workers would be in high demand as baby boomers retire in the future. I'm enjoying my career in IT. Next set of demographic milestones is the baby boomers being retired in 2030 and America becoming a minority-majority country in 2050.
Well, both the election and polls suggest otherwise.
This election is the tip of the iceberg. Are you prepare for the changes to come?
Oh wait ..
The Republicans couldn't get past the fact that a "D" came after his name on the ballot. Never mind that he implemented much of the Republican agenda overt heir strident obstructionism.
Well, your obsession with race and status, and your snobbery and arrogance, are certainly typical for Silicon Valley.
I made an observation.
Fortunately, they haven't infected the rest of the country quite as much yet, as this election shows.
This election is the tip of the iceberg. My observation will become an obsession for many.
Suddenly, it's all about race
That's because this election was about demographics. In 2050, America will be a minority-majority country. California today is already a minority-majority state. Time Magazine had an influential cover in 1993 that described this demographic trend in one blended image.
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19931118,00.html
If you think that's bad, try out 2030 when all the baby boomers are retired, the work force (tax base) is significantly smaller, and Social Security/Medicare will consume two-thirds of the federal budget. Taxes will have to go way up to pay for everything else.
Plus the inevitable virtue signaling.
The demographic trends are clear. You can change or not change. If you want to bitch about it, I'm not going to tell you to shut up. I'm too busy moving forward with the rest of America.
Don't blame me if you spew ambiguous bullshit.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here. ;)
But the way to start is by working towards a Constitutional amendment, not by changing the rules after the election.
If the electors pick Clinton over Trump, that's not changing the rules after the election. It's part of the process. If that does happen (unlikely as it might be), I'm sure more people would be favorable to abolishing the Electoral College.
Ah, so what you're saying is: "shut up racists". Figures.
What part of my comment did you draw that mistaken conclusion from?
In other words, it's about the culture war, and I'm very glad to see it won at the ballot box - we really don't want to let it go further, which is exactly what I fear of DC plays some trick to say "no, you flyover people still don't matter, even when you vote".
An article I've read accused Hillary of running a campaign for the 2050 election, which is when the majority of the country will be brown. That's not a problem that can't be fixed at the ballot box. White people need to have more babies or accept the change in the power structure. As a white Californian, I've already made the transition in Silicon Valley. I see that as a strength and not a weakness.
Maybe the problem is with you rather than with your relatives?
My relatives live in Idaho. If they want to see a Mexican, they got to the Mexican restaurant. If they want to see a Chinese, they got to laundromat. If they want to see a Black, they go to the rodeo to see him riding a horse and telling off-color jokes. Meanwhile, I see all these people when I get on the bus in Silicon Valley and the only white people I know are out of state coworkers. Which one of us is "normal" in today's America?
The historic mistake was nominating Hillary Clinton, a corrupt, incompetent war monger. The electoral college can't fix that.
The historic mistake is for the Republican Party to nominate Donald Trump who is not a Republican, not a conservative and who has zero experience in public office. The other 15 candidates for the Republican nomination weren't any better. I changed my party registration to Democrat over a year ago when that circus came to town.
What would be really cool would be for California to secede, and have Mexico invade and take California back.
I wouldn't have a problem with that. I have a Mexican uncle. If you want to get ahead in Mexico, you need a Mexican uncle to help open doors for you. If you don't have a Mexican uncle, move to the U.S. and have babies.
never. because if it went away, then all states outside of California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan would basically never have a say.
Or the smaller states can increase their population rate. That's what this election was really about: white people not making enough babies to keep immigration in check, and people fleeing the rural areas for the cities.
One could readily interpret your original statement as others already have.
What I thought I wrote and what my fingers actually typed are not quite the same. I meant that the discussion to change the electoral college should begin now while the issue is still relevant.
If you see the Clinton opinions before the campaign, she's actually quire very conservative.
That's why I consider Barack Obama to be the best moderate conservative that the Democratic Party ever nominated for POTUS.
Didn't work in 2000, won't work now.
I thought the Supreme Court decision was correct. If Al Gore had called for a state recount instead of focusing on a few counties in Florida, he might have won the electoral college.
If you really care about the process, not the winner, change the rules at a time when your guy will lose as a result.
The Democrats lost to the electoral college despite wining the popular twice (2000 and 2016). That's not normal by historical standards.