Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers

H1 BS

amen to H1B Visa's its a scam against the american worker should bee stopped altogether, they have done the same thing in Germany of all places, people from India being brought in given housing near a work place, under the guise of germans didnt have the qualifications, and if it works in one country it will work in another, so there goes the neighborhood!!

carol duarte of CA @ Oct 31, 2009 00:22:26 AM

H1 BS

amen to H1B Visa's its a scam against the american worker should bee stopped altogether, they have done the same thing in Germany of all places, people from India being brought in given housing near a work place, under the guise of germans didnt have the qualifications, and if it works in one country it will work in another, so there goes the neighborhood!!

carol duarte of CA @ Oct 31, 2009 00:22:26 AM

H1 BS

amen to H1B Visa's its a scam against the american worker should bee stopped altogether, they have done the same thing in Germany of all places, people from India being brought in given housing near a work place, under the guise of germans didnt have the qualifications, and if it works in one country it will work in another, so there goes the neighborhood!!

carol duarte of CA @ Oct 31, 2009 00:22:24 AM

Pharmacist

I think that the career opportunities in pharmacy are highly over rated! The pharmacist job market is rapidly saturating in large metropolitan areas, as the schools pour out graduates. Most real opportunities are in chain retail pharmacies, where the work is intense, but monotonous and very stressful with terrible hours. Most chains will deny this, but they have prescription quotas, and pharmacists must work hard to meet them. The stores call the shots, not the pharmacist. In fact, pharmacy is one of the few major professions which does not have a trade association fighting for quality of work environment. Ask pharmacists who have been in the field for a few years if they would recommend this job for the 6 years of college involved. You would be surprised! The"new" roles for the pharmacist have yet to evolve, and there is no guarantee that they will. The aging population will have little effect in the demand for the profession, considering the sophisticated technology developing and the use of cheap technical assistants who can reduce the need for professional information staff.

I feel that the shortage was largely composed by the lucrative pharmacy schools in conjunction with the chain drug stores which will have ready access to the new graduates-indeed many chain retail pharmacists after they pay off their debt look to new, but less lucrative, opportunities in other fields. By the way, most pharmacy school faculty members would be clueless after working a few days in a busy chain retail pharmacy!!

Ed RPH of PA @ Oct 22, 2009 14:08:57 PM

Offshoring and H1b

Hey, I lost my job three times to incompetent H1b visa holders.... they all have green cards now.... and the CEO is a multi-millionaire, working on DoD contracts that do nothing but put money in his pocket. the Darpa Sbir program is nothing more than a vacuum for taxpayer's money into the pockets of well-connected foreigners who come to the US not for freedom but to extract money into their pockets.

he only hires people who speak Russian... if you catch my drift. and they make 50% of the going rate for PhDs, while he pays himself $20K per month. If there is one company like this, there are tens of thousands.

so YES!!! we need immigration and off-shoring managers and lawyers.... oh yes...

Lindy of FL @ Oct 02, 2009 13:03:51 PM

emergency managers

And yet in every disaster that was seen as inadequately handled..who was blamed but those charged with managing. Yes we do need excellent planners with foresight and new ideas, keeping pace with today and tomorrows needs and visions, and better at communication. And a public with common sense. If the top is in disarray or inadequately prepared , the people hands on can't be effective enough to complete their mission.

bette of PA @ Sep 25, 2009 13:02:57 PM

managers?? FAIL

RE More managers. Go read Dilbert or User Friendly. Nuff said.

Ben of NY @ Sep 15, 2009 23:25:03 PM

TERRORISM?

they want me to be a terrorist?

OR counter terrorist??

cho of IL @ Sep 14, 2009 12:59:41 PM