Money Pours into New Fabs and Facilities

Re:Money Pours into New Fabs and Facilities by Workaccount2 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:17AM (#38927101)

The problem isn't so much that schooling sucks, the problem (if it is a problem) is that smart students are drawn to high margin top slot careers.

Why work in a chip fab clean room for 10 hours a day when you can make 2x the pay to work from home on software projects? Or do financial analysis in a trendy office with a hybrid schedule?

I can tell you that manufacturing offers -zero- work from home options. Which usually entails "We need you here this weekend" too. Even if you aren't a top shelf student, you can still get more comfy better paying advanced economy jobs.

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Re:Money Pours into New Fabs and Facilities by pi-e-sigma on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:43PM (#38930123)

It's both. Schooling sucks so we don't have as many well educated people as we could and those who have good education make rational decisions and go into high paying careers, so not into manufacturing. And can you blame them? After all we are a capitalistic society, everyone just chooses what's best for them financially

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