Apple Goes On A Hiring Spree In China

[Flatulo]

25. Speaking as one who's been outsourced three times, I don't think those jobs are coming back here.

At least not for many generations. When I was displaced in 2010, I was making $100,000 per year as a design engineer for Evergreen Solar. The Chinese engineer who replaced me (who was an incredibly decent guy, by the way, and felt terrible about taking my job) was making $13,000, which was considered a very good salary for an engineer. China is so damn big the wages vary quite a bit by location, but this was in Wuhan.

My last job was for Vestas Wind Systems, a large Danish conglomerate. They'd opened a few design centers in the US in anticipation of wind power taking off here, but it fizzled. So they closed up shop and moved much of their operations to China.

The point being that not only have good manufacturing jobs gone offshore, but highly skilled engineering and scientist types are following them.

To your point about the global workforce, I have to laugh when our politicians promise to create jobs here. It's utter bullshit. As long as your job can be done using the Internet and a computer, it will be going bye bye.

It was a good run, but we're in a death spiral from which I see no return.

Every day you see headlines that boggle the mind. Cisco posts a great quarter, beats Wall Street's estimates, and announces 4,000 layoffs the same day. CEO says they're 'too fat'.

Bah. I'm glad I'll be dead pretty soon.