A Mess on the Ladder of Success

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magaz ... f=magazine

Today, the few bright spots in our economy are relatively small (though some promise future growth) and decentralized. There are great jobs in Silicon Valley, in the biotech research capitals of Boston and Raleigh-Durham and in advanced manufacturing plants along the southern I-85 corridor. These companies recruit all over the country and the globe for workers with specific abilities. (You don’t need to be the next Mark Zuckerberg to get a job in one of the microhubs, by the way. But you will almost certainly need at least a B.A. in computer science or a year or two at a technical school.)

Year or two technical school = BA comp sci

As far as they speak of biotech recruiting - I do not know what they are talking about. There has been preciously little of it. Novartis just announced another retrenchment, iirc, in oncology = a few hundred more professional job-seekers.

As far as they speak of biotech recruiting - I do not know what they are talking about. There has been preciously little of it. Novartis just announced another retrenchment, iirc, in oncology = a few hundred more professional job-seekers.

Not just biotech - across the board. Jobs nailed it:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20 ... ck-to-U-S-

As far as they speak of biotech recruiting - I do not know what they are talking about. There has been preciously little of it. Novartis just announced another retrenchment, iirc, in oncology = a few hundred more professional job-seekers.

Not just biotech - across the board. Jobs nailed it:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20 ... ck-to-U-S-

Just posted that as a separate thread. The U.S. does not have a skilled workforce, but more importantly, it does not have a flexible supply chain. Manufacturers need to be where the parts makers are found and that is not here, either. And the culture of U.S. factories could never adapt to rapidly changing customer demands the way Asian suppliers can.