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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1036884" data-attributes="member: 13032">I'm glad your sons have done so well.  You should be proud and I'm sure you are.  Education helps, but it also takes good old fashioned goal setting and the hard work that follows.  Good for your sons.  I wish then continued success.And my experience with HB1 contractors came from my days in IT staffing in CA.  My clients were big enough that they put limits on the % of workers who could be on work visas, usually 20%.  That made my job harder because, for example, we couldn't find an American citizen who could program in Java.  At the time that was a very common programming language and there were a ton of people on HB1s who could do that work.I never had a client fire citizens and replace then with contractors, fortunately, but have heard the horror stories you describe.  Companies that do that have fools for executives.  Eventually those HB1 contractors have to leave, with many cities limiting their length of service to 18 months.  It's just a lousy way to try and build a business.Sorry but I couldn't help but laugh at the example of the double-labeled package.  Well if it helps you personally, that's great.  And hey, if one line of bad code in the kernel can take down most of the world's computers - well there will always be a need for guys like you, at every level of production, including, ummm, quality assurance.</blockquote>

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