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Over 15 years ago I proposed to a number of universities what could best be described as an apprentice program. Our clients were interested but because there was no defined income stream to the university (they wanted us to pay them to allow us to teach their soon to be graduates) nobody bit. We have been sounding the alarm about Gen-X retiring for years, but nobody wants to hear it. Now a lot of my colleagues are starting to leave the sector or move out of the US to and scale down their hours. Covering their roles is going to be a struggle.
A shitload of people are being fired from the government, I imagine plenty of them would be worthwhile replacements. It's just that training takes time. I was working as the employee for a contractor in IT/infrastructure to a global giant up until a month ago.
My former co-workers talk to me regularly, they are getting screwed without me. Yet the company won't call me up because pride. They wanted me to come back as an independent contractor at a lower wage. I won't because pride. It's fun. I gotta get a job soon though.
Right now they are paying two people a bit more than half what I was getting and they are fucking shit up because there's no real training, let alone apprenticeship. Sink or swim.