Yet he continues to drive up the national debt and seems to have no plains on how to pay back what we owe.
That's because no politician wants to raise taxes. The problem is only going to get worse in the next 20 years when the baby boomers retire and fewer workers are paying taxes. Social security and Medicare will take two-thirds of the federal budget. Everything else will have to come out of one-third of the budget and/or more deficit spending.
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The Republican-controlled House and Senate budget committees jointly broke with tradition in announcing that they would not even listen to the details of the Obama administration plan. The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shaun Donovan, was not invited to testify about the administration's plan, according to a joint House and Senate press release.
Overlooking the fact that George W. front loaded the debt for Obama by not paying for Medicare reform and tax cuts, and keeping two wars off the books.
I am just now a tech who does some AD work because some idiot on Slashdot 10 years ago said to not major in IT.
If you're taking advice from the Slashdot community, you pretty much deserved your fate.:P
Ten years ago IT stopped being the money major in college when everyone and their grandmother decided that healthcare would deliver the big bucks. I went back to school at that time to learn computer programming and earn my technical certifications. I came across a study that IT will face a serious shortage as the baby boomers retire in 30 years and I positioned myself to take advantage of that trend. Now that I'm well established in my IT career, I'm quite happy with the money I'm making. All my friends who went into healthcare hate their jobs despite the money they're making.
Unless, of course, an employer need bodies to fill positions to get the job done. I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), where recruiters told me I was unemployable for anything and hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs. That changed in 2011 when recruiters and employers couldn't find enough people to fill their open positions. At that point, they became less picky and started hiring again.
When I was in school, I learn calculus, and I learned programming. The programming has been about a thousand times more useful.
I didn't find programming useful until after I learned mathematics. Since I was terrible programmer on the Commodore 64 as a teenager, I avoided computers and took plenty of mathematics in college. A decade later I went back to school to learn computer programming and get my technical certifications. Everything fell into place with programming and I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
A practical limit for silicon-based CPUs. I've been told that military uses a different semiconductor material to run CPUs at 100GHz at a much higher temperatures.
Frankly, I don't believe that a tech labor shortage exists.
Wait another 20 years as the baby boomers retire and/or die off for the forthcoming IT labor shortage. After the dot com bust, I went back to school to learn computer programming and get my technical certifications to take advantage of this trend.
When they leave here, the job stays here for someone else to take.
The Wall Street Journal had an article on how the illegal migrants disappeared after Arizona passed tough laws. Only 10% of the job openings were filled by American citizens or legal migrants. The remaining job openings went unfulfilled due to the labor shortage.
this is also the guy that spent a couple of years unemployed and filed for bankruptcy because he went so long w/out a job
I'm the guy who spent two years being unemployed because recruiters and hiring managers looked at my resume, saw three-plus years of help desk experience in the last three positions, made the conclusion that I wanted to continue working in help desk, and, "Oh, sorry, we're not hiring for help desk positions," never mind that wasn't the job I applied for. This was during the Great Recession when there were seven job applicants for every job opening. Yes, I did file for chapter seven bankruptcy after exhausting my savings. On the day my bankruptcy got finalized in 2011, I got a new job and then spent the next two years working multiple jobs for seven days a week. When I got my government job, the two-hour investigative interview lasted four hours because the government thinks it is suspicious for someone to work more than one job and I had to list all contract assignments that I've worked since being unemployed.
Your boss (or HR) might intercept you coming back from lunch and point to your stuff (or most/some of it...) in a box on a cart and tell you to hit the bricks.
I worked at a video game company in Silicon Valley before the dot com bust that transferred a software tester to a development studio in Texas, shut down the studio a month later, and told the guy to hitchhike home if he wanted to come back to California. We took up a collection to get him a Greyhound bus ticket.
I try to avoid burning any bridges on the way out. Silicon Valley, in particular, is a very small community. You never know who you will work with again or be your future boss.
What do you do, if the company replaces you and gives you the bum's rush escort by either security or the police? No notice, just 15 minutes to clear the desk and you are out on the street.
That personally has never happened to me. But I had a string of one-year contracts ended after nine months because I did my job too well.
You must have a good resume to be hired in that 15 minutes.
Hired in 15 minutes? No. Hired in less than 24 hours that the HR paperwork wasn't finalized yet? Yes. I do keep my resume updated and active on all the job search boards, and I typically get ~20 phone calls per day from recruiters. That's somewhat annoying considering that I now work for the government and my contract is fully funded for the next four years.
Anyhow, your ideas are very interesting - I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep that in mind.
That's standing up for what's right, and there's not enough of that in this country, which is how all this crap gets started in the first place
You want to play the hero, get fired and have a pity party, knock yourself out. My obligation tis to put food on the table by bringing home the money. That's capitalism, baby.
Oh that's cute, he thinks that you'll always get paid more just for leaving an old job.
As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, I got paid more money with every new assignment. In fact, I had to turn down a job because a former coworker still worked at the company, made the same amount of money as I did when I worked with him nine years before, and my starting pay rate was 80% higher than his. Those 2% raises just don't add up over time. The job that I did accept paid $8 per hour more and provided a full benefit package.
More likely the ex-employee signed a arbitration clause that will gives the company the upper hand to settle the disputes in their favor while avoiding the public courts with a civil lawsuit.
Or stop playing the victim game, get a new job while still employed, give a two-week notice to old employer, and get a 30% pay raise from new employer.
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Yet he continues to drive up the national debt and seems to have no plains on how to pay back what we owe.
That's because no politician wants to raise taxes. The problem is only going to get worse in the next 20 years when the baby boomers retire and fewer workers are paying taxes. Social security and Medicare will take two-thirds of the federal budget. Everything else will have to come out of one-third of the budget and/or more deficit spending.
C) The budget has more spending than previous budgets.
Never mind that the Republicans led the way in busting the budget caps in last year's budget deal.
http://www.responseaction.com/Article/mcconnell-boehner-seek-bust-spending-caps
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Might help if you stay current with the news.
The Republican-controlled House and Senate budget committees jointly broke with tradition in announcing that they would not even listen to the details of the Obama administration plan. The director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shaun Donovan, was not invited to testify about the administration's plan, according to a joint House and Senate press release.
http://fortune.com/2016/02/09/congress-snubs-obama-budget/
Overlooking the fact that George W. front loaded the debt for Obama by not paying for Medicare reform and tax cuts, and keeping two wars off the books.
That the Republican Congress won't even take a look at the President Obama's final budget proposals. Nice talking point, though.
I am just now a tech who does some AD work because some idiot on Slashdot 10 years ago said to not major in IT.
If you're taking advice from the Slashdot community, you pretty much deserved your fate. :P
Ten years ago IT stopped being the money major in college when everyone and their grandmother decided that healthcare would deliver the big bucks. I went back to school at that time to learn computer programming and earn my technical certifications. I came across a study that IT will face a serious shortage as the baby boomers retire in 30 years and I positioned myself to take advantage of that trend. Now that I'm well established in my IT career, I'm quite happy with the money I'm making. All my friends who went into healthcare hate their jobs despite the money they're making.
When you're unemployed, you're tainted goods.
Unless, of course, an employer need bodies to fill positions to get the job done. I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), where recruiters told me I was unemployable for anything and hiring managers told me I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs. That changed in 2011 when recruiters and employers couldn't find enough people to fill their open positions. At that point, they became less picky and started hiring again.
When I was in school, I learn calculus, and I learned programming. The programming has been about a thousand times more useful.
I didn't find programming useful until after I learned mathematics. Since I was terrible programmer on the Commodore 64 as a teenager, I avoided computers and took plenty of mathematics in college. A decade later I went back to school to learn computer programming and get my technical certifications. Everything fell into place with programming and I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
Of course it could be the fault of common core that takes the kids into a huge detour to figure out simple results.
Funny. I thought New Math in the 1960's got the blame for kids not being able to make change. Now get off my lawn!
A practical limit for silicon-based CPUs. I've been told that military uses a different semiconductor material to run CPUs at 100GHz at a much higher temperatures.
Frankly, I don't believe that a tech labor shortage exists.
Wait another 20 years as the baby boomers retire and/or die off for the forthcoming IT labor shortage. After the dot com bust, I went back to school to learn computer programming and get my technical certifications to take advantage of this trend.
When they leave here, the job stays here for someone else to take.
The Wall Street Journal had an article on how the illegal migrants disappeared after Arizona passed tough laws. Only 10% of the job openings were filled by American citizens or legal migrants. The remaining job openings went unfulfilled due to the labor shortage.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-thorny-economics-of-illegal-immigration-1454984443
this is also the guy that spent a couple of years unemployed and filed for bankruptcy because he went so long w/out a job
I'm the guy who spent two years being unemployed because recruiters and hiring managers looked at my resume, saw three-plus years of help desk experience in the last three positions, made the conclusion that I wanted to continue working in help desk, and, "Oh, sorry, we're not hiring for help desk positions," never mind that wasn't the job I applied for. This was during the Great Recession when there were seven job applicants for every job opening. Yes, I did file for chapter seven bankruptcy after exhausting my savings. On the day my bankruptcy got finalized in 2011, I got a new job and then spent the next two years working multiple jobs for seven days a week. When I got my government job, the two-hour investigative interview lasted four hours because the government thinks it is suspicious for someone to work more than one job and I had to list all contract assignments that I've worked since being unemployed.
Sometimes you don't have a choice in who you work with. The best course of action is to remain professional at all times.
Your boss (or HR) might intercept you coming back from lunch and point to your stuff (or most/some of it...) in a box on a cart and tell you to hit the bricks.
I worked at a video game company in Silicon Valley before the dot com bust that transferred a software tester to a development studio in Texas, shut down the studio a month later, and told the guy to hitchhike home if he wanted to come back to California. We took up a collection to get him a Greyhound bus ticket.
I try to avoid burning any bridges on the way out. Silicon Valley, in particular, is a very small community. You never know who you will work with again or be your future boss.
That's because present day libertarians are merely Republicans who are selfish pricks, who can't put up with anyone telling them what to do
Eli the Computer Guy on YouTube has made the argument that I.T. workers need to be assholes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YaNGzplbE
What do you do, if the company replaces you and gives you the bum's rush escort by either security or the police? No notice, just 15 minutes to clear the desk and you are out on the street.
That personally has never happened to me. But I had a string of one-year contracts ended after nine months because I did my job too well.
You must have a good resume to be hired in that 15 minutes.
Hired in 15 minutes? No. Hired in less than 24 hours that the HR paperwork wasn't finalized yet? Yes. I do keep my resume updated and active on all the job search boards, and I typically get ~20 phone calls per day from recruiters. That's somewhat annoying considering that I now work for the government and my contract is fully funded for the next four years.
Anyhow, your ideas are very interesting - I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep that in mind.
That's standing up for what's right, and there's not enough of that in this country, which is how all this crap gets started in the first place
You want to play the hero, get fired and have a pity party, knock yourself out. My obligation tis to put food on the table by bringing home the money. That's capitalism, baby.
Oh that's cute, he thinks that you'll always get paid more just for leaving an old job.
As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, I got paid more money with every new assignment. In fact, I had to turn down a job because a former coworker still worked at the company, made the same amount of money as I did when I worked with him nine years before, and my starting pay rate was 80% higher than his. Those 2% raises just don't add up over time. The job that I did accept paid $8 per hour more and provided a full benefit package.
More likely the ex-employee signed a arbitration clause that will gives the company the upper hand to settle the disputes in their favor while avoiding the public courts with a civil lawsuit.
Or stop playing the victim game, get a new job while still employed, give a two-week notice to old employer, and get a 30% pay raise from new employer.
Nervous? Not really, just updated my resume'
Finding a new job while you're employed is much easier than finding a new job while unemployed.
"Suck! Suck! Suck!"