If domestic jobs are getting outsourced, thats gonna hit domestic asian job seekers just as hard as anybody. Especially those in the IT jobs that can be most easily sent overseas.
…Unless your skills are better than others…. Or you work for a company that requires some 2nd language to bridge gaps.
Sorry Kewp, but unless you haven't noticed, some of the successful companies tech companies here in San Diego are run by foreigners or have foreign roots. Also, in tech field there’s a high probability your next boss/employer will be asian (like it or not). Simply because, these companies overseas are outgrowing and outperforming our domestic counterparts. Like someone previously alluded to Huawei is giving Cisco's run for the money, most electronics are made in China, and most software or a good portion of it is made in india.
As far as your MBA analogy. I'm really lost. Because actually I have a lot of relatives and buddies that graduated from Wharton, Stanford, Harvard…And usually top 10 mba's don't end up working at these normal companies in marketing or sales unless they totally foobared their MBA degree or want an easier life/family constraints….The big bucks are over on Wall Street, VC's, LBO shops, Management Consulting (Mckinsey,Bain,BCG), hedge funds, or computational finance on W.S.. And in those jobs, you can't suck at math period….(BTW: a good portion of these hires are computational finance/risk analysis/etc are indians/asians/russians/eastern europeans because of their computation abilities. Hedge funds also hire a good portion of these folks)
…..And if you're not in the top 10 mba's, it's pretty useless for these positions, because they won’t talk to you..You’re stuck with the traditional marketing/sales positions at a company…and really isn't significant enough to really be considering it to be your primary source of income imho. Last time I checked, none of the schools in local San Diego would i consider to have any relevant MBA program that would really make any significant salary differential. And talking to folks from USD, UCSD, SDSU who gave me what numbers they are seeing, seemed to confirm that. (Was considering an MBA here locally, but it wouldn’t really add value to what I currently do, and really wouldn’t open doors to things that would offer significant higher pay).
You have to understand what happened during the dot bomb..A lot of non-techies became techies, and then were pushed out because their skills really sucked. Then they went to go get their MBAs, so there's a flood of MBAs at all sorts of levels. Most of them are pretty useless. The only place where I see them add merit are at companies that stick to formality (typically defense companies)…But no one in their right mind would work at those companies because the pay in those companies suck overall…..I have nothing against MBAs. But just having one doesn't mean much these days unless you actually do something with it. And while you could probably learn some things from the program, I would say in general you could learn from everything whether you really had one or not. Plenty of immigrants I know here that run companies and businesses without an MBAs, and they significantly better than you and I ever will be.
