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To: bentway who wrote (257983)	11/2/2005 2:05:54 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575420

"Did you get any sense whether the foreigners want to work in this country or return to their country of origin or some other country?" Most of them want to stay here. For the same reasons that they came here in the first place, they don't want to be under the thumbs of the ones who call the shots. Which is why being a H1-B is such a bitch. Ah, you missed the fun. Yes, hardware changes fast, but it changes! If you keep on your toes, and have experience, it is always interesting. I've used everything from assemblers, more than a dozen, to many high level languages and OS's. I will match anyone for platforms, languages or OS's. Embedded was something you did for love until about a decade or so ago. It can be pretty lucrative now. Why? Because you have to be a hacker type to do it. And they are a subset of any population. Managing such can be a bitch, though. Only three startups? Must have been a slacker. Almost none of the companies on my resume still exist. In fact, there are only two, and one of them is part of the state of Texas. The other did a reverse merger with their parent company. How many buyouts wind up controlling the company that acquires them? Glad to here about your real estate rewards. I still have to work when I graduate. But that is ok. You will be using my algorithms for distributed wireless stuff for decades. More ego than financial, but that is how it goes.