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Re:Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs by strathmeyer on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:28AM (#9717815)
What's scary is that in 2004 and 2005 less than 50% of these people got jobs by the time they graduated college and the economy has never picked them up. We're told we don't deserve jobs after all our hard work. We're just supposed to keep waiting... and waiting...
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Re:Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs by M8 on Monday June 15, 2015 @04:18AM (#9718104)
Sometimes there is just a surplus of people. Besides, 50% of graduates being hireable sounds just about right.
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Re:Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs by eru on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:07AM (#9718245)
Depending on the school of economics you subscribe to, there should never be a surplus of people. I mean, just go outside and have a look at the streets: if you don't live in Singapore, there's plenty of work to do even just cleaning them up. We could pay people to do that.
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Re:Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs by thewarrior on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:16AM (#9718278)
Ah the Keynesian solution of paying half the unemployed to dig ditches and then pay the other half to fill them up.
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Re:Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs by M8 on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:34AM (#9718342)
That kind of "employment" already exists - known as 'social work'.
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Re:Coding Boot Camp Enrollment Soars as Students Seek Tech Jobs by eru on Monday June 15, 2015 @07:09AM (#9718618)
You could let them actually do some useful work, too.
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