Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "CNBC Make It" channel.

Network engineering? That involves knowledge in programming, but also must be adept in information security and flow design. But unlike app development it's a role based more on confidential trust, because good luck finding real world firewall configurations that an AI or overseas worker can recreate.
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Private and elite campuses are the most dramatically hit, as in-person random meetings and activities is a major part of the experience. Community colleges and more technically focused schools already have more capability and experience with online teaching since they're often catering to more professionally distracted students.
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Critics of green energy hyperfocus on the larger upfront costs and less consistent output. It's like they're the lame office workers whose world is all in a filtered and air conditioned environment, not having realized the benefits of touching real green grass.
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I'm technically an office worker, but often get consulted if not lend a hand in various electrical (low and medium voltage), mechanical (racking equipment and repair work), and logistical (parcel and pallet moving) tasks. IT infrastructure is kind of the best of both white and blue, and unlike software development it's chronically short-staffed and the job can't be outsourced.
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@Music-yq8qc Office workers can move around after and increasingly during work shifts, gaining the benefits of exercise without destroying the body. The trades however often leaves a retiree medically broke, with all the costs of lifelong chronic conditions that involves.
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Right, entry-level trades work is notorious for low pay and abusive work environments, which you're stuck with for much of your youth until you're certified to go independent.
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@IL_Bgentyl Not when the movement is repetitive, straining, and/or contorting. There's a reason blue collar workers are often medically broke by retirement, with all the chronic healthcare costs those involve. Office workers by contrast can hit the gym or go on hikes or walk around the city and get all the benefits of light to moderate exercise without causing permanent damage to their body.
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The most courageous part was being a foreigner opening shop in famously convoluted India. The Mexican part isn't so difficult, as beyond the furthest historical reach of Mexico (its borders into the 1840s) there's not much presence of actually tasty Mexican cuisine. (I grew up in California, so yes I am a snob about this)
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The most prestigious universities got their reputation through research, not teaching; educating students only develops those in the classroom, while papers develop the entire field worldwide even if cited decades after publication. If you want great teachers you'd need to go to community college where instruction is their mission. It's a balance though because elite signaling is a real and powerful phenomenon, which includes the name of the school on your degree. So perhaps spend the first two years learning the basics in community college and transfer to somewhere valuable later on. That is if you're willing to give up on that last growth out of childhood that dorming with your peers as freshmen provides.
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@aeiou0123 That's what happens when you're told that if you work hard you'll rise up, only for reality to be a lot less fair (and nowadays increasingly so). Contented societies are ones that don't have such a wide gap between optimistic capitalism and corporate feudalism.
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Nowadays Saudi is nice, having their ultraconservative attitudes blunted by COVID and realizing the global downward pressures on oil consumption; Hajj visas only bring in so much money, so the Kingdom is focusing on trying to develop a tourism market that's year-round and welcoming to all.
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@alanaglaser7695 Americans abroad have to file it though. Usually anything owed isn't worth flagging their reentry for unless they're a prominent businessowner.
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Although Boomers also make those houses more costly degree or not, by deterring denser builds and refusing to make a downsize move to keep their home value (and terminal eldercare savings) inflated. Really the only way to homeownership was to be born even earlier.
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Yeah it's much easier to learn some trade tasks with a college degree than to be in a niche researching the wider picture. I studied social science yet do my own electrical and IT work; and then I can document the details for other technicians, explain its impact to executives (from cost-benefit to organizational culture to global geopolitics if need be), and simplify instructions to end users.
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Yeah a cost-benefit analysis worked for well for the app programmers who "learn to code" over the past decade, only to see the bottom fall out for the current glut of junior devs. Really just find something you enjoy waking up to do, and figure out how to get paid for it.
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Private and elite campuses are the most dramatically hit, as in-person random meetings and activities is a major part of the experience. Community colleges and more technically focused schools already have more capability and experience with online teaching since they're often catering to more professionally distracted students.
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@whoisnumber8665 First year dropout yes, my degree is in Sociology. But turns out the weak link in information networks is the humans at the keyboard, so there's a cybersecurity route into the field. Plus I'm comfortable communicating between users, sysadmins, and executives having studied their common interests and biases, thus the best way to steer them towards best practices. I was also exposed to PCs early in life building every desktop from the bare chassis, and had the knowledge formalized after college from OJT in the Army Reserve and Tier 2 sysadmin in an enterprise environment.
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