| TachyonBomb |
05-24-2017 09:06 AM |
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
(Post 2915649)
Anybody that works a lot with manufacturing robots knows they screw up. A lot. Almost need one tech for each one. The people fixing the just need to be trained better than the guy that used to do what they do. Still loads and loads of hands on manufacturing being done. Just not in North America where labour priced themselves out of the market.
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I honestly thought and felt the same way not to long ago. But I've been doing the whole job hunting thing this past week and I was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of hand on manufacturing type of jobs. If you want proof copy my search, log into linkedin, go to the search area, type in one of these phrases (physics, B.S. physics, scientist, or engineer), click the jobs tab, and start reading the descriptions on all those job offer pages. Set your location anywhere between San Jose and San Francisco CA and you will literally find 10's of thousands of jobs that state in one form or another that they are looking for applicants with bachelor degree in almost any science field for entry level positions where you are making chemicals, making the packaging for some tech product, making the electronic components of some product, making special new materials and testing them to work with some new product etc... They pay way too much for an entry level science positions out here and there are plenty of jobs where you don't need to learn some sort of software code language.
I may have a nerdy degree but I would hate having a job that sat me behind a computer all day every day. Kind of ironic that I know all of the math involved with writing computer software but I hate writing computer code :-P
On the one hand yes jobs are going to robots and cheap international labor but on the other hand American is still #1 in science tech, computer science everything else tech that the bay are is doing. There has been a lot of push back to get those jobs back but at this point in how things have played out that is going to be a hard goal to accomplish. It would be easier to and cheaper to just make a have a policy that makes college free for all science and engineering degrees to keep the work force at large afloat. That way companies like amazon, apple, netflix, google, tesla, etc... can expand out of California and fill up the spaces that the auto, steel, coal, and other industries of yesteryear left behind.
At this point that seems like the best compromise the may have a chance of even getting through any republican congress since full free college will never be in the cards with them around. But if they are serious about Americans having jobs and having a competitive future, at least making science/engineering degrees free seems like the best bang for their buck option. |
