Postal applicants in the US require a college degree and the passing of a civil service test. There is a distinct advantage if you are a minority. Because they are government employees, our postal workers cannot strike.
Who says that universities are supposed to meet the needs of industry? IMHO universities are to provide the information to equip a student with some skills and some knowledge in a subject. If this fills a particular need in industry, that's fine. But, universities teach foreign languages, sports, welding and basket weaving, along with the various sciences, math, medicine, etc. Are these skills directly to fill the needs of industry? Once you've acquired the skills you were interested in, you go out and get a career with those skills. You still have to decide where to submit your resume.
Maybe you should go to China or India where the IT jobs are currently needed. You'd have competition from the locals. But, you are proficient in English and have worked a number of years in Canada. That might be an asset in India. The pay might not be as high. But, the cost of living is also much lower.
Yep, if you follow the money, you see from where the influence comes. So, there could certainly be more classes to get more IT degrees because of DOD or NIH money.
UCBerkeley was always getting grants for research in astronomy from the Department of Defense. They would provide the heat-seeking missile sensors that they had developed, to the astronomy researchers for free, along with money to get the electronics developed to control and read the chip quicker with less system noise. These chips were put in telescopes. The images were much improved because of the research UCBerkeley did. This helped make the infrared chips manufactured in different universities (Stanford, for one) bigger and more sensitive. They wanted faster control electronics and more accurate targeting, we wanted more pixels and more sensitivity. It followed Moore's law for many years.
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Maybe you should go to China or India where the IT jobs are currently needed. You'd have competition from the locals. But, you are proficient in English and have worked a number of years in Canada. That might be an asset in India. The pay might not be as high. But, the cost of living is also much lower.
UCBerkeley was always getting grants for research in astronomy from the Department of Defense. They would provide the heat-seeking missile sensors that they had developed, to the astronomy researchers for free, along with money to get the electronics developed to control and read the chip quicker with less system noise. These chips were put in telescopes. The images were much improved because of the research UCBerkeley did. This helped make the infrared chips manufactured in different universities (Stanford, for one) bigger and more sensitive. They wanted faster control electronics and more accurate targeting, we wanted more pixels and more sensitivity. It followed Moore's law for many years.