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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by HarryHirsch on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:26PM (#23032688)
That being said, these people didn't have to settle for serving drinks in a bar.

I'm familiar with a certain materials science startup in England that lost out on a round of funding in the dotcom bust and went bankrupt soon after. The chief chemist, a very capable man, went back to his native country in the Former Eastern Bloc and worked in a shipyard for a couple of years. It was that bad.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by jgalt212 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:44PM (#23032936)
but his similarly skilled native born co-worker, probably found his footing in a decent job. The privileges of citizenship. And I don't say that in a sarcastic way.
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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by chipperyman573 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:35PM (#23034395)
There was nothing that the OP said that would imply the person wasn't a citizen, much less that they had troubles because of their citizenship.
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