See, the problem in CS is the same in Physics. The government and oligarchs claim there isn't enough people in these fields. That's not true. These fields have more people they can handle. Instead, what the DOL is intentionally doing is over-supplying these fields so that people who aren't the absolute pinnacle of these fields are forced into other industries, which drives the cost of of these skillsets down and makes them more attainable.
Basically, CompSci people can get jobs in Silicon Valley, but that's not really where they should be working. They need to work everywhere else in less lucrative places and sectors. In Physics, the field is just as overloaded, but this makes physics majors much more attractive to the financial industry and other industries because they are being over-supplied in the research industry, and their problem solving skills can be more useful elsewhere.
But the problem isn't really that these other industry's can't find them. It's that Colleges are just funneling them all to specific industries, the workers can't find a job, and then just settle for doing something utterly unrelated in their home town, blowing the whole system apart because they think they can't do the work, or that they aren't good enough.
No one's telling students to point themselves towards local industries to get less competitive positions, and it's actually ruining their potentially lucrative careers.
I can personally vouch that the reason some of the people I know who are doing extremely well is because I taught them how to use Excel formulas and macros in their daily work. This is because for everyone else, computers are all a magic black box that no one knows how to use. Minimal programming skill can literally put you well above anyone else if you can show what you actually did to make it work.
Instead, colleges are doing everything in their power to make the supply of coders in Silicon Valley ultra-competitive so that the tech giants can keep their labor costs low, while everyone else literally doesn't know how to use Excel, and have never even heard of "Microsoft Access".
This is why a place like Upwork.com is useful: free-lance coders can do temporary coding work for small fees across the country, rather than doing all their work as part of a corporate Goliath and feeding into the California system.
Sure get students a CS course, but then direct them to local work. These kids should be learning Unity, VBA, or Java, or any kind of basic form-building work. Don't train them to be code-monkeys at Microsoft. Maybe Python for building robotics as an intro.
I'm going to be honest. This has larger problems.
See, the problem in CS is the same in Physics. The government and oligarchs claim there isn't enough people in these fields. That's not true. These fields have more people they can handle. Instead, what the DOL is intentionally doing is over-supplying these fields so that people who aren't the absolute pinnacle of these fields are forced into other industries, which drives the cost of of these skillsets down and makes them more attainable.
Basically, CompSci people can get jobs in Silicon Valley, but that's not really where they should be working. They need to work everywhere else in less lucrative places and sectors. In Physics, the field is just as overloaded, but this makes physics majors much more attractive to the financial industry and other industries because they are being over-supplied in the research industry, and their problem solving skills can be more useful elsewhere.
But the problem isn't really that these other industry's can't find them. It's that Colleges are just funneling them all to specific industries, the workers can't find a job, and then just settle for doing something utterly unrelated in their home town, blowing the whole system apart because they think they can't do the work, or that they aren't good enough.
No one's telling students to point themselves towards local industries to get less competitive positions, and it's actually ruining their potentially lucrative careers.
I can personally vouch that the reason some of the people I know who are doing extremely well is because I taught them how to use Excel formulas and macros in their daily work. This is because for everyone else, computers are all a magic black box that no one knows how to use. Minimal programming skill can literally put you well above anyone else if you can show what you actually did to make it work.
Instead, colleges are doing everything in their power to make the supply of coders in Silicon Valley ultra-competitive so that the tech giants can keep their labor costs low, while everyone else literally doesn't know how to use Excel, and have never even heard of "Microsoft Access".
This is why a place like Upwork.com is useful: free-lance coders can do temporary coding work for small fees across the country, rather than doing all their work as part of a corporate Goliath and feeding into the California system.
Sure get students a CS course, but then direct them to local work. These kids should be learning Unity, VBA, or Java, or any kind of basic form-building work. Don't train them to be code-monkeys at Microsoft. Maybe Python for building robotics as an intro.
Immigration is what is killing CS fields more than anything.
and outsourcing, they don't even need the pajeets to be physically here