Despite Layoffs, High-Paying Jobs Go Unfilled

Math and sciences are too hard/inconvenient for Americans who are mainly skilled at picking up their government checks and endless benefits. THANKS BIG GOVERNMENT! Reply

Some employers cannot find good people because they have a bad reputation in their industry because of a bad corporate culture. This is something that company management and HR people seldom admit to themselves. Reply

This is why we need a more enlightened education policy in this country. We need to create policies that incentive and encourage people to go into careers that are actually productive and create real wealth and growth for this country (like engineering) and not voodo wealth (like financial services). Strong banking and other financial service industries are certainly necessary and have a place in a our economy but they have become far too important and far too influential. Just as the draw of six figure salaries drew all of the best minds to Wall Street over the past decase, why can't we provide financial incentives for people to study and become engineers and scientists? For example, federal grants'/scholarships for anyone who majors in an approved scientific/engineering field. Not only will this ensure that we have a large number of highly skilled and trained citizens (with skills that can translate to any career in a modern high-tech, information based economy) but these types of grants can pay for themselves in increased tax revenues since engineering majors generally make more money both initially after graduation and over the course of their lifetime. And, unlike financial services, engineering and sciences have their own multiplier effect and create new industries and opportunities. Reply

I know a lot of Nurses that would be willing to take those jobs if staffing wasn't limited to the minimum number possible. If they got any respect and if they could get decent pay. Hospitals are run by MBA's who know nothing and care less about your health. These are the people who invented the stupid contradictory lying slogan "do more with less" as a business plan and in that spirit I say to them FKU! Reply

Most hospitals in this country, especially the Catholic non-profits, absorb wealth like a black hole does light. And 12 hour shifts? Yeah, I want to be given medication by someone whose been on her feet for say 11hours. We need to dismantle the entire hospital system and start over. Reply