[FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

[Owen Densmore]

I think catagorization of "tech" jobs is difficult. This article:

Dear President Trump: Those jobs aren’t coming back, and why would we want
them to?

http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/20/dear-president-trump-those-jobs-arent-coming-back-and-why-would-we-want-them-to/

sez:

The U.S. economy is craving skilled technology workers: There are a
quarter-million job openings for software developers in the U.S., half a
million unfilled jobs that require tech skills, and the forecast need grows
to one million within the next decade.

Note the distinction between software development, and require tech skills.

The article notes robotics in manufacturing, and as they say: Notice that
these robots run on software. So ask yourself who is taking care of them?
That’s right, software engineers.

So maybe a million is a bit over the top for "tech workers" but I bet it's
closer than your links suggest. I bet if you include web design and other
allied skills, you'd get pretty close.

   -- Owen

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick,  Where did you get the statistic that there are a million unfilled
> tech jobs? A google search (https://goo.gl/UmejPd) leads to these two
> sites, which don't seem to have that number: https://goo.gl/U73bdN and
> https://goo.gl/d4s1El.
>
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 5:05 PM Barry MacKichan <
> barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:
>
>> That’s what I did. Worked out well for me and the boss.
>>
>> --Barry
>>
>>
>> On 4 Mar 2017, at 14:55, Nick Thompson wrote:
>>
>> > Or demand that your boss let you work remotely and move here to Santa
>> > Fe where the coffee is good, the air (usually) clean and where you are
>> > never more than ten minutes from the head of a hiking trail?
>>
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