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Well, everyone is in the same boat, so if the economy ever recovers, certainly people with gaps will have to be brought back into the fold. I mean, the economy won't remain bad forever. And just crunching the raw numbers of jobs in the economy would show you that many people have large gaps...

Hint: I'm posting on a forum called EliteTrader. But I desperately yearn to be doing something that actually makes use of my brain, rather than this mindless drudgery. I didn't go to school for 5 years to merely spend 20 minutes of my day "working". I'd rather be making wealth, rather...

Yeah, you grow up, fag. Add something useful to the thread, or get lost, idiot. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, and your comments directed towards people such as the young lady who is the topic of the original post, who, for no fault of her own, is down on her luck.

America didn't accumulate debt to foreigners during the 1930s "Great Depression" either. But now the USA has a debt overhang and unfunded liabilities in the tens of trillions of dollars, owed heavily to foreigners. And why should people work at less than their capability? Doing that is...

Yeah, you're the loser, and the past decade has been just as bad, if not worse than the Great Depression on so many metrics. So ditch the attitude and stop making things up concerning 'sense of entitlement'. You need to grasp reality yourself, loser.

Unfortunate, but you do realize that anyone with a bona fide CS degree from a major university could pick up C++ / MFC in a month or two if they knew another programming language or had a background in OOP, right? Of course you'd be dissappointed if you interviewed a CS grad with experience in...

And you're just an ignorant fool who is completely out of touch with the real world. We have a well-developed food industry, so I'm not sure that parallels with the Great Depression in terms of dietary intake are appropriate. But in terms of metrics such as the stock market, employment...

Hence, why the economy is collapsing. The use of cheap offshore labour has driven down salaries for American tech workers, which means, they don't have any cash left over for savings. And the savings that have been created by their labour, has been mal-appropriated to the financial industry...

Yeah, whatever, loser. This past decade has been worse than the Great Depression, unless you happened to work in some favoured industry. Tech employment has shrunk dramatically, and been taken over by foreigners at every opportunity. As I said earlier, people like you would blame the Jews...

I'm down in Mountain View a lot. The University is in Canada, but in the 90s, has had many of its grads employed in the Silicon Valley. Don't exactly see very many young people there, and maybe your firm hired some youngsters, but ended up firing some older people. And I most certainly am...

Wrong, on both counts. In the entire history of the USA there has not been a decade with no job growth but significant population growth, until 2000-2009. And when an entire decade of college graduates, including the bright young lady who was the subject of the original post, can't find a job...

Absolutely. They do it all the time. That's not true at all. Entire IT departments get sold off to Accenture/EDS/BearingPoint, and they ship as much of it as they can offshore. Critical business functions in many cases. And the amount of value being captured by the outsourcers/offshorers...

In the greatest economic downturn and the worst decade for jobs ever, its really, really mature to blame job seekers for their own unemployment. Really mature. Do you like kicking people when they're down? Just admit it, the system is broken. Employment of college educated people hasn't...

Right. But the secondary tech centres have shrunk as well dramatically, and larger businesses have been offshoring most of their IT work at a ferocious pace. Go into a modern IT department in a large business, its mostly Indians. Plus we're all competing with the tens of thousands of...

Applying to tech firms in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Applying to the local firms who haven't hired for years and have been rapidly dissappearing as the technology industry consolidates to Silicon Valley and offshore. I most certainly am not lying, and the only hogwash is what's...

Nope. I have a high GPA, speak good English, am clean shaved, etc. Wrong. Firms aren't hiring, or when they do hire, they get hundreds of resumes for just a couple positions, so they pick at random. Attitudes or personalities is just a smokescreen -- every firm needs a broad cross section...

And I graduated in 2002 with dual EE and CS degrees from a top-20 university and spent years not even getting the time of day from corporate HR or from recruiters when I sent them my resume. I was at the top of my class, have some good publications/projects under my belt, work experience, and I...

As I said, not BS at all. There was no hiring in 2002, 2003, and barely any in 2004. By the time 2005 rolled around, what little hiring had occurred in the tech sector was mainly just foreigners, or picking up some of the more experienced guys. 2006, there was a little hiring, and by the time...

No, welfare is far broader than that. As long as you can prove you have no job, no unemployment, and no assets, you get welfare. If every college grad tried to find a job right now, salaries of college grads would revert to zero, as supply > demand. With zero salaries, the capital base...

Welfare. A college grad is better off collecting welfare, than ruining the job prospects of all the other college grads who are trying to make a living. Nobody likes a scab.