> However, in this era of e-mail, Skype, and many people working successfully in the technology business from a large distance (e.g. India or China), why exactl

> However, in this era of e-mail, Skype, and many people working successfully in the technology business from a large distance (e.g. India or China), why exactly couldn’t the desperate “starving” technology companies offer him a job he could do from Texas? I feel like there's a blindness by some STEM professionals to the fact that not all jobs can be done nearly anywhere, least of all those available to semiconductor engineers. I blame the acronym for bundling us all together unnecessarily.