What will you be when you grow up?

Hell Puppy · 11-08-2008

Oprano is typically a more mature audience, so most of us have already laid our tracks and will ride them out.

But I was thinking the other day what it must be like to be a kid just graduating high school and trying to figure out what to do with your life. College or not, what's out there for a young man or lady?

Information Technology and all things related to it? There will always be jobs for people who know how to solve business problems with technology. But the bulk of the jobs such as coders, QA, even SAs and DBAs are in serious danger of offshoring.

Healthcare? Same deal, if you wanna dedicate a dozen years or so of your life and have the dedication and smarts to be a doctor, there'll always be money here. But walk around a doctors office or hospital and notice who the techs, RNs, etc are. Few are born on American soil.

Franchising? Again hard to compete with an arab or indian immigrant who is willing to work 70-80 hours a week to make $60-80K. And to make that level off one store, they employee their whole family. typical American doesn't wanna work that hard.

Basic labor such as textiles, manufacturing, etc, again headed offshore.

Customer service? Tech support? Help Desks? all great entry level positions, all also headed to India.

There are lots of white collar jobs still around, but not everyone is cut out for that.

Small business and entrepeneural endeavors have been the haven, but jobs are about to be lost to taxes there.

11-08-2008	#1
Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	What will you be when you grow up? Oprano is typically a more mature audience, so most of us have already laid our tracks and will ride them out. But I was thinking the other day what it must be like to be a kid just graduating high school and trying to figure out what to do with your life. College or not, what's out there for a young man or lady? Information Technology and all things related to it? There will always be jobs for people who know how to solve business problems with technology. But the bulk of the jobs such as coders, QA, even SAs and DBAs are in serious danger of offshoring. Healthcare? Same deal, if you wanna dedicate a dozen years or so of your life and have the dedication and smarts to be a doctor, there'll always be money here. But walk around a doctors office or hospital and notice who the techs, RNs, etc are. Few are born on American soil. Franchising? Again hard to compete with an arab or indian immigrant who is willing to work 70-80 hours a week to make $60-80K. And to make that level off one store, they employee their whole family. typical American doesn't wanna work that hard. Basic labor such as textiles, manufacturing, etc, again headed offshore. Customer service? Tech support? Help Desks? all great entry level positions, all also headed to India. There are lots of white collar jobs still around, but not everyone is cut out for that. Small business and entrepeneural endeavors have been the haven, but jobs are about to be lost to taxes there.