Anonymous wrote:Maybe companies will hire American workers instead of H1B interlopers from foreign countries. But right now, Musk loves the cheap H1B labor too much. American kids are out of luck thanks to Musk.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell him to start with a Help Desk position.

Help desk is mostly offshored.

Yep. My employer (we did corporate IT support) went from 700 US employees to a couple of dozen between 2018 and 2022.

No true for local government agencies. I recruit for DC, MD, VA, and GA state agencies. I get multiple Help Desk postings a month.

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Anonymous wrote:Read a little about H1B and OPT.

Democrats and DCUM love H1B and OPT even more. These programs are used by companies to replace US citizens with cheap foreign workers.

For example , OPT is a disgrace and Democrats kept expanding it under Biden.

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a work authorization program that was created entirely through regulation and not through congress. Any alien grad irrespective of merit or quality of their program qualifies for the work permit.

Employers are exempt from payroll taxes if they hire aliens on OPT.

It’s strictly a job displacement program where young American graduates are passed over in favor of foreign student graduates.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-optional-practical-training-problems-stem-graduates-deserve-better-jobs-opportunities/

But we are being told that there are no qualified Americans for these jobs - and somehow there are tons of college grads with IT or CS degrees unable to find ANY kind of tech work.

That's because...revelation here...big tech lies.

These aren't "big tech" jobs. These are mundane IT jobs.

Anonymous wrote:PP here, who just re-read the original post.

For information security (cloud or not), the usual background would be networking and Unix/Linux admin work, along with possibly some military and/or law enforcement experience. Getting a job (any job) which would allow him to get a security clearance would be valuable here. Note that lots of infosec work is kind of boring--writing and enforcing policies, looking at log files, etc. The fun stuff (pen testing, forensic analysis) would be much harder to get into, at least at the entry level.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read a little about H1B and OPT.

Democrats and DCUM love H1B and OPT even more. These programs are used by companies to replace US citizens with cheap foreign workers.

For example , OPT is a disgrace and Democrats kept expanding it under Biden.

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a work authorization program that was created entirely through regulation and not through congress. Any alien grad irrespective of merit or quality of their program qualifies for the work permit.

Employers are exempt from payroll taxes if they hire aliens on OPT.

It’s strictly a job displacement program where young American graduates are passed over in favor of foreign student graduates.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-optional-practical-training-problems-stem-graduates-deserve-better-jobs-opportunities/

But we are being told that there are no qualified Americans for these jobs - and somehow there are tons of college grads with IT or CS degrees unable to find ANY kind of tech work.

That's because...revelation here...big tech lies.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe companies will hire American workers instead of H1B interlopers from foreign countries. But right now, Musk loves the cheap H1B labor too much. American kids are out of luck thanks to Musk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell him to start with a Help Desk position.

Help desk is mostly offshored.

Yep. My employer (we did corporate IT support) went from 700 US employees to a couple of dozen between 2018 and 2022.

No true for local government agencies. I recruit for DC, MD, VA, and GA state agencies. I get multiple Help Desk postings a month.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell him to start with a Help Desk position.

Help desk is mostly offshored.

Yep. My employer (we did corporate IT support) went from 700 US employees to a couple of dozen between 2018 and 2022.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - my son doesn't want to join the military because he's afraid that he'll get sent to the front lines of fighting someone else's war (and overall, he's not too crazy about the political situation right now). Sorry not trying to make things political - just showing his point of view.

Regarding college, he just seems adamant about not going and overall finds most of the classes that you are required to take useless. A lot of this is just the mentality of a 16 year old. However, I admit that I am impressed that he is at least trying to set up a game plan for the future by learning about and studying for his certifications. He has begrudgingly told me that he is willing to explore possibly attending community college and getting an associates degree, but he is against going to a 4 year unless absolutely necessary. In fact, he asked that we put the money for his college towards his first home instead. Sometimes, given how difficult it is for kids to get a job and buy a home, I'm wondering if he's correct in his thinking. I'm hoping that things will turnaround - and hopefully, with all the tech investment happening in NOVA there will be opportunities for him and other entry-level applicants in the near future.

Both my husband and I have post graduate degrees (law and CS) and his older sibling currently attend a 4 year college now. So we always just assumed that our son would go. However, I guess everyone is different.

I think he needs to learn that you need to do things you might personally see as "useless"--more schooling, military, trade school--in order to get where you want to get in this world.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell him to start with a Help Desk position.

Help desk is mostly offshored.

Yep. My employer (we did corporate IT support) went from 700 US employees to a couple of dozen between 2018 and 2022.

Anonymous wrote:OP here - my son doesn't want to join the military because he's afraid that he'll get sent to the front lines of fighting someone else's war (and overall, he's not too crazy about the political situation right now). Sorry not trying to make things political - just showing his point of view.

Regarding college, he just seems adamant about not going and overall finds most of the classes that you are required to take useless. A lot of this is just the mentality of a 16 year old. However, I admit that I am impressed that he is at least trying to set up a game plan for the future by learning about and studying for his certifications. He has begrudgingly told me that he is willing to explore possibly attending community college and getting an associates degree, but he is against going to a 4 year unless absolutely necessary. In fact, he asked that we put the money for his college towards his first home instead. Sometimes, given how difficult it is for kids to get a job and buy a home, I'm wondering if he's correct in his thinking. I'm hoping that things will turnaround - and hopefully, with all the tech investment happening in NOVA there will be opportunities for him and other entry-level applicants in the near future.

Both my husband and I have post graduate degrees (law and CS) and his older sibling currently attend a 4 year college now. So we always just assumed that our son would go. However, I guess everyone is different.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read a little about H1B and OPT.

Democrats and DCUM love H1B and OPT even more. These programs are used by companies to replace US citizens with cheap foreign workers.

For example , OPT is a disgrace and Democrats kept expanding it under Biden.

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a work authorization program that was created entirely through regulation and not through congress. Any alien grad irrespective of merit or quality of their program qualifies for the work permit.

Employers are exempt from payroll taxes if they hire aliens on OPT.

It’s strictly a job displacement program where young American graduates are passed over in favor of foreign student graduates.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-optional-practical-training-problems-stem-graduates-deserve-better-jobs-opportunities/

But we are being told that there are no qualified Americans for these jobs - and somehow there are tons of college grads with IT or CS degrees unable to find ANY kind of tech work.

That's because...revelation here...big tech lies.