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Personally, I think that the real reason why people with degrees are having a hard time getting jobs is that at one time, having a degree meant you came from mo
by lsc 13y ago
Personally, I think that the real reason why people with degrees are having a hard time getting jobs is that at one time, having a degree meant you came from money. The problem now? this is diluted. More and more poor folk have degrees, and so it's no longer a reliable class indicator. (the positive view is that it's also possible that class indicators are becoming less important.)
The problem was that they confused cause with effect, and decided that we should put a bunch of effort into getting degrees for poor people. This diluted the degree as a class indicator.
Now, I don't have a degree or rich parents, so obviously, I haven't seen the parts of the job market that rely on those class markers. I'm the riff-raff that those filters are designed to keep out.
However, from where I stand? most individual contributor jobs in my industry that I'm actually qualified for are open to me. In the tech sector, the value of a degree is smaller than actual work experience. (I mean, if you actually /learned/ something while getting that degree, that's pretty valuable. But the paper itself is not.) Internships? they are paid. Maybe not paid a lot, but something, and the real companies usually pay substantially.
As far as I can tell, unpaid internships are 'class marker inflation' - "Not only did my parents have enough cash to put me through four years of art history, and the contacts to get me this internship, they could support me while I worked for free!"
- larrys 13y agoOff topic and sorry for asking in this forum (but I'm guessing others might also be interested). What ever happened with the colo rates re: "Feb 1, 2013" as detailed on this page: http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html Did they raise you on this or were you able to renegotiate favorably? (A post on this would be nice. Would like to know the business details as I'm sure others would if you'd like to share).
- lsc 13y agoI'm moving to coresite santa clara, and I'm mostly in, but I'm also mostly out of power, and the conditions are not so favourable for me renting out significant rack space. I've also been kinda soured to the idea of letting other people into my production co-lo[1] so I'm kinda re-thinking the whole customer-accessible co-lo thing. That's the thing, renting co-lo space, when you least datacenter space is generally a really shitty deal; the economics make more sense when you own the place. I'm also building out a datacenter in my buddy's warehouse in santa clara, but the fiber isn't there yet, and the power isn't in yet so unless you can deal with comcast-level network, that doesn't help you. It does look like it will be pretty cool when it's up; we have a bunch of those 'datacenter in a cargo container' things; My buddy wants to rent out whole containers at a time to big players; I am focusing on renting dedicated servers in them. Again, it's high density, so having a bunch of smaller customers with access is probably a bad idea. So yeah, uh, it's essentially still all up in the air, with no real ETA. [1]http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/2013/05/outage-in-rack-05-11.html http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/2013/05/outage-in-rack-05-1...