Interesting. I’m a boomer. I have one child living overseas in an Asian country, loving it, and working hard. Another is degreed at a double-master’s level and has been promoted numerous times, is happy married, owns their own home, with a baby on the way. The third was laid off by a major tech company, but not before amassing a half a million in investments. My husband was also laid off in Jan by a tech company. Both of them are looking for jobs, but H1Bs are destroying the industry. We have land and money and are close to retirement age anyway. In the meantime, I think one of his apps could do really well in a niche industry and plan to approach companies with a package and see what happens. I also run a business from home. I hardly think “lazy” is in our vocabulary. |
Try to stay on subject, sweetie. Or better yet, ask the nice man in the white scrubs to take you outside for a walk. |
Me again - and all three kids are college-degreed. |
LOL. So you're anti-H1B in the US, but perfectly fine with your DS working in Asia and taking a job away from a citizen. Never change DCUM! |
| Yes OP everything is extremely bad. No one is happy. Everything is out of control. Livelihoods have been taken away. People can’t get their foot in the door. Costs are exhirbitant. Congress doesn’t do anything to control this administration. SCOTUS gave everything away in terms of protecting our democracy. 2025 was the year the USA died. Do what you can to pack up and move somewhere else. It’s not getting any better. I fear the midterms. I fear everything in the US now. |
He’s doing translation for a tech company. He’s multi-lingual. |
...a job an Asian could do. You're a total hypocrite. |
| 24 hour news cycle and social media saw to it. |
He’s hired at the same pay as natives there. H1Bs undercut Americans re: pay. That’s the problem with H1Bs. We import people to work cheaper. |
foreigners are willing to go to podunk red areas and serve the communities there because "real Americans" want to be in cities. Without those foriegners getting AMA grants, most of the rural, red state hospitals would be operating without doctors. |
Speak for yourself. I have put in a lot of time with my two children investing in their future and making sure that they perform in the top of a system that is light years behind other countries. This is why we do camps overseas so they can build culture, experience real life unscreened, and eat healthy food and breathe clean air. Also to get way ahead of peers. It worked! My eldest is doing senior research her freshman year in college and has a huge paid internship for the whole summer. Next summer, she will be studying abroad for a global physics program. I plan to do the same with my youngest. Our end game: transition like my parents out of this country. |
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America is broken.
where are the H1B apologists that claim H1B is about lack of skilled labor?? As anyone that has a brain knows, it is about cheap labor. Here is Iowa State, an institution dedicated to training our children, unable to train a business analyst??? and Democrats are suing the federal government to keep H-1B. because as the party of labor, they are dedicated to replacing our own workers with cheap temporary labor. (https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/h-1b-visa-fee-lawsuit) Iowa State University has posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Business Systems Analyst Salary: $86,778 Nobody in Iowa was qualified for this job. |