At least two of those interviewed spoke with their faces in the dark because they were now technically illegal aliens, but from their accents, I could tell they were Filipino. When America sneezes, we get pneumonia, so their problems with dotcoms and computer companies are magnified here. This is because the quality of our training is often substandard. My own health NGO has a computer science graduate from a state-run college and she will tell you she learned nothing significant about computers from her school. Whatever she does know she picked up from our office, where she was a working student.
Some graduates end up as clerks, salespersons, or worse.
Roderick reveals that we have 350,000 students in local computer schools, but many end up jobless. Eyestrain seemed the more savvy, a bright kid from a lower middle-class family who studied at a popular computer college but found the classes disappointing and then shifted to another school, but eventually dropped out. He has the skills, but no company will hire him because he doesn t have a diploma and because there are so many other job applicants. Then the US markets dried up but the schools remained, still churning out graduates by the thousands, and often with questionable competence. Many of them remain unemployed, or are working in non-health fields.