There are a lot of jobs in the US but Americans are raging idiots when it comes to choosing careers. I literally cannot fill beyond 1/4 of the IT roles I’m recruiting for. The Trump administration isn’t going to increase the H-1B allotment (which may be good for Americans, or maybe not), which means that companies won’t be able to fill LITERALLY hundreds of thousands of positions. (Stick a pin in this point, we’ll come back to it in a sec.)
Now, are these the jobs you want? Maybe not. But they’re rotting on the vines. Hard to get into IT? Sure it is. But those jobs exist. Americans were spoon-fed on a diet of, “Follow your dreams and stuff your fucking gullet with Twinkies and Pringles and your life will be great.” And we did that, only the entire job market shifted and we forgot to shift with it.
This means:
- If you want the jobs, you’ll have to assume the risk; people don’t like doing that.
- You’ll have to relocate, not once, but twice or three times. Americans don’t want to do that.
- You’ll have to get the RIGHT degree and not the one you super-duper dreamed of as a kid. Americans don’t want to do that.
Sure. Maybe you know an out-of-work software engineer, but I’m willing to bet my commission check it’s because s/he sucks at it, won’t relocate for a job, or hasn’t bothered to shift her/his skillset to suit the shifts in the market. But whatever. I’ve been beating this drum for about six years. Are you going to tell me, “But Dan! Their kids grew roots.” My response will be, “Kids are resilient. There are kids around the world who’d give their left leg for the privilege to have their parents move for a job and put food on the fucking table.” Don’t want to move? Great. Stay jobless! See if I fucking care. BUT THE JOBS EXIST.
So, those jobs? Well, they won’t go unfilled. Companies have needs that have to be met. Nobody gets to tell them to go bankrupt investing in teaching people skills that they should have learned in college or on their own. So, they’ll just outsource to some company in Bangalore or Manila. And not only will the jobs be lost, but the tax revenue from having those jobs be filled by H-1B candidates in the US will also be gone. Unintended consequences FTW.
There are also loads of tool-and-die jobs that need to be filled. Last I checked, there were a few thousand alone in Cleveland. Then there is the impending retirement of upwards of half of all plumbers and carpenters by the mid 20’s which again, Americans were told, “I worked with my hands so you don’t have to,” and decided that life would be better with a useless degree. (BTW — a good plumber earns six figures.)
Welcome to the ONE industrialized nation on the planet with millions of jobs and nobody who wants to do them. Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
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