Do you have "buyer's remorse" about adult life?

[Ragnarök_62]

(06-20-2016, 12:21 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: [quote='Rags']

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1. Disclaimer.  Yeah, this is fodder for conspiracy groups, but the meat of said act has been in force since the 1950's.

2. As for the bolded stuff, I guess all of those H1-B's will get sucked into the bureaucratic machinations since the folks they replaced are like moi, are effectively deskilled.  I rather doubt they'll need garden skills or newspaper skills like stickering newspapers for mail out. I'd reckon a lot of fellow H1-B'ds are now fast foodie folks whose skills are as useless as mine wrt "strategic skills".    Heh, heh, blowback's a bitch, man. I'm also medicated and am no use for the selective service stuff. I'm probably too old also.

3. Training:  After 8 years so far of no computer type work, I'm most likely too far gone.

4. Video required for defense preparedness crap out.

X_4AD_84 Wrote:An H1B needs to get a Security Clearance, wait a minute, how does that work. It doesn't. I think you are interpreting this wrongly. There are very few H1Bs working in defense. If defense contracting goes into actual war mode (ala WW2) it will be a boon to Citizens who are not security risks. Seems like a great deal, when can I begin?

If you're still working in computers then there's no deskilling going on. However, like I mentioned in item #2, which applies to the folks mentioned in the links I provided and myself, the longer you're no longer working in some computer science related field, you get deskilled. That's why , along with age discrimination a whole set of other folks are working in some low skill field. It's been almost 8 years since I've touched a corporate firewall.  Care to hazard a guess on how much of that stuff I can still readily recall? Updating my skills is dumb because it's only 8 more years until I can just opt for SS and of course an 8 year career isn't worth whatever it costs for said updating.
I suppose that act got updated because there's most likely a gut feeling it will be used in the near future, either for war or for some domestic economic collapse. So... it is for that reason  that the current MBA craze of using H1-B's will present a long term clusterfuck. You're right that the defense field does use cyber security experts, but getting more from where-ever is the problem. This field isn't an easy one where just anyone can do it. It's one of those college situations where there are classes that once the  midterm is over, half or more of the class disappears.
Another example is organic chemistry. That one had a 25% survival rate after mid term. That class was my all time record drop record I've ever been through.