Letters to the Editor
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I am a 39 year old Engineer
I don't make $53,000 a year. If Florida power companies were to offer that job to me, I would take it. The arguments made for why people do not want these jobs are stupid. And, they are the same tired arguments based on nothing. The crap about there not being enough science people is a lie to bring in cheaper workers from abroad. Companies do not want to pay for American workers in technology - look at the number of computer specialists that cannot get jobs because their coding is in COBOL or another out dated system These people are qualified to be trained. But, companies will not hire people to be trained. They are all about the stock price and the dividend.
It is like the time I spent determining if I could be a math or science teacher. I had more math than most of the teachers at the schools I substituted in, but the state (Ohio) put multiple roadblocks in my path to certification. I had applied math to real problems not the contrived stuff you find in books (which I could work and explain as well). But, it would take two more years of schooling before I could look for a job. And, there weren't that many jobs available.
It is all propaganda and greed that drive these stories.