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Comment Re:Here's another perspective (Score 1) 389

Yup, and with that most ESL students (especially those from east Asia) are doomed out of high school because they are only qualified to go to a community college, even if they get 800 on the quant SAT, 36 on ACT Math, getting A's in all the math and science courses, etc. No "real" college will accept them because they get C's and D's in English, history, music, and most liberal arts courses.

Comment India: Scammer country (Score 3) 210

ugh, this is a real disgrace on India. I think this scamming here is frequent from India because there is little to no regulation, law or enforcement of it if there were one about scamming 'foreigners'.

This is how most of the Indian GDP were composed of.

It is part of their culture. In the university that I went to, 90% of the Indians are cheating. This is in a electrical engineering master's program.

That's why our organization will not hire any H1Bs.

Comment Re:My experience (Score 1) 250

Just for reference, at least in downtown Chicago and NYC, a person with 5+ years of well rounded senior level person with VMWare, some SAN, and Windows is going for $130K. A "good" Cisco guy starts at about $140k.

Excellent. This gives me some reference salary points when I am looking to switch out from the academic sector to the private sector by next summer (in the Chicago area preferred). One thing you want to look for is a PMP (Project Management Professional) credential, it is getting very popular in the IT industry.

Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 509

You forgot to say "Private" student loans. Federal student loans have very generous provisions on forgiveness so if you have ultra-high balance you probably will get some forgiven if you use Income-Based Repayment. Plus, the interest are deductible (as adjustment to income) on your federal tax return.

Comment Re:No. Die in a fire. (Score 1) 113

"You cannot force people to be competent."

Every single human being are good at something. It may be in some other fields. Underutilized workers are usually a result of incompetent managers. I once supervised/trained a ADHD student working in our IT lab that has 1.) borderline 2.0 GPA and 2.) consistently harassed by my boss because the boss accused him that he just sit on the screen and reading reddit / running full screen 3D applications (a.k.a. games) all day, and guess what.... when he graduated he landed a software consulting job for above-median wages in the geographical area.

Managing ADHD people requires a different approach to fully unlock their potential. But most managers will just write them off as "incompetent".

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"You cannot force people to do jobs they have no interest in (hi women, minorities!)"
"You can get anybody to fill a seat for enough cash."

The above two sentences can be combined:

You can get anybody to do jobs they have no interested in provided that it pays enough cash.

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