Plan to hike H-1B cap to 300,000 seen dead; 130,000 cap still possible

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15. The problem with self-training is that most employers want someone with paid experience

in some list of technologies.

I can remember a time when a comp sci degree along with paid experience as a developer was enough to get a job. They knew that you could quickly learn what was needed.

Unfortunately, you now have non-technical people standing between you and the job and all they see is a list of required skills and don't understand just how interchangeable many of them are and that the learning curve would be very short.