Atlanta is known as a ‘Black Mecca.’ Jobs data tell a different story.

[Skooby]

No. 1 (tie): Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV

No. 1 (tie): Atlanta, Ga.

Cost of living is high in the DMV. Plus most folks, even myself, are connected in someway to the federal government.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

As someone who's somewhat up in IT, I think this might be where I might have to cut this one off at the legs. I manage a large number of Indians.

I am a firm believer America should do a much better job getting it's natural born residents more into IT and not just the nerds from successful families.

Those Indians don't come broke and off the plane and white folks are like, here, a job.

8 out of 10 of them come to American with the EB3 visa and most have many years of experience and tremendous talent and an International company giving them that visa is the ultimate job offer or opportunity that most Indians in IT dream of. So when they come, they were already doing that job in India and in some cases for that company or were doing it from a previous company.

India President in the early 90s said India will lead in tech and create more IT professionals than anywhere in the world. At the time, it was seen as a joke but it's serious business now. It's like playing hoops and being Black. Everyone knows it kinda a way out but the difference is for us, hoops is really a dream, IT is a reality.

While there are a lot of meh talents in India in IT, there are more stars than usual. More than I seen in the states. To shyt on Indians wouldn't be a fair assessment in my opinion. That's like cacs shytting on Blacks for being good hoopers as if we weren't shooting in the fukking gym.

IT is a way out of poverty there but for many, its a way to more riches as many come from middle class to upper middle class families.

As for whites in Atlanta. Probably the best city in America to me for them. An abundance of jobs. SEC country. Most love Trump so racism is right up their alley and they don't have to pretend they like being around Blacks cause they don't which they do in Northern cities.

An abundance of c00ns who tap dance for security so they always feel comfortable.

Blacks have their own shyt here so the begging is at an min as it's not Milwaukee where everyone Black is broke af and whites gonna hold the racist af L.

Cacs in Atlanta got it made in Atlanta. Not saying Atlanta is a piece of cake for cacs but you can make it MUCH MUCH easier than a BM or BW.

 

[CoryMack]

Yeah, it is strange that he was only looking for admin positions at colleges in Atlanta. That gives him a very limited number of opportunities. People that truly want to get into college coaching or administration know that they need to look nationwide for opportunities. His problem is because of the nature of his chosen profession and has nothing to do with the job market in Atlanta.

Head football coaches in high school down here average about 100,000 a yr and don't do anything but coach football at the overwhelming majority of schools, and you can live pretty comfortably on 100,000 anywhere in Texas. Anyone who's ever been involved in football knows the path most people who don't have some influential family member guiding their career have to take. Small backwater towns making shyt money, moving every couple of years, etc.

No real job security in the sense of expecting to be in one place 25-30 years, but there's security in the coaching industry and opportunity for advancement if you're willing to move around. You can always get a job coaching football somewhere and use that job to work your way up to the office. Especially if you played in League. That nikka has no excuse other than he doesn't wanna leave Atlanta.

 

[DJSmooth]

As someone who's somewhat up in IT, I think this might be where I might have to cut this one off at the legs. I manage a large number of Indians.

I am a firm believer America should do a much better job getting it's natural born residents more into IT and not just the nerds from successful families.

Those Indians don't come broke and off the plane and white folks are like, here, a job.

8 out of 10 of them come to American with the EB3 visa and most have many years of experience and tremendous talent and an International company giving them that visa is the ultimate job offer or opportunity that most Indians in IT dream of. So when they come, they were already doing that job in India and in some cases for that company or were doing it from a previous company.

India President in the early 90s said India will lead in tech and create more IT professionals than anywhere in the world. At the time, it was seen as a joke but it's serious business now. It's like playing hoops and being Black. Everyone knows it kinda a way out but the difference is for us, hoops is really a dream, IT is a reality.

While there are a lot of meh talents in India in IT, there are more stars than usual. More than I seen in the states. To shyt on Indians wouldn't be a fair assessment in my opinion. That's like cacs shytting on Blacks for being good hoopers as if we weren't shooting in the fukking gym.

IT is a way out of poverty there but for many, its a way to more riches as many come from middle class to upper middle class families.

As for whites in Atlanta. Probably the best city in America to me for them. An abundance of jobs. SEC country. Most love Trump so racism is right up their alley and they don't have to pretend they like being around Blacks cause they don't which they do in Northern cities.

An abundance of c00ns who tap dance for security so they always feel comfortable.

Blacks have their own shyt here so the begging is at an min as it's not Milwaukee where everyone Black is broke af and whites gonna hold the racist af L.

Cacs in Atlanta got it made in Atlanta. Not saying Atlanta is a piece of cake for cacs but you can make it MUCH MUCH easier than a BM or BW.

fukk out of here them nikkas are trash at anything STEM related. I've seen it with my own eyes consulting companies will buff up a fabricated Indian resume and then they get jobs because they will work for cheaper. Now you got an Indian that don't know what the fukk they doing working with you and I can't understand what the fukk they are saying because of their accent.

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

As someone who's somewhat up in IT, I think this might be where I might have to cut this one off at the legs. I manage a large number of Indians.

I am a firm believer America should do a much better job getting it's natural born residents more into IT and not just the nerds from successful families.

Those Indians don't come broke and off the plane and white folks are like, here, a job.

8 out of 10 of them come to American with the EB3 visa and most have many years of experience and tremendous talent and an International company giving them that visa is the ultimate job offer or opportunity that most Indians in IT dream of. So when they come, they were already doing that job in India and in some cases for that company or were doing it from a previous company.

India President in the early 90s said India will lead in tech and create more IT professionals than anywhere in the world. At the time, it was seen as a joke but it's serious business now. It's like playing hoops and being Black. Everyone knows it kinda a way out but the difference is for us, hoops is really a dream, IT is a reality.

While there are a lot of meh talents in India in IT, there are more stars than usual. More than I seen in the states. To shyt on Indians wouldn't be a fair assessment in my opinion. That's like cacs shytting on Blacks for being good hoopers as if we weren't shooting in the fukking gym.

IT is a way out of poverty there but for many, its a way to more riches as many come from middle class to upper middle class families.

As for whites in Atlanta. Probably the best city in America to me for them. An abundance of jobs. SEC country. Most love Trump so racism is right up their alley and they don't have to pretend they like being around Blacks cause they don't which they do in Northern cities.

An abundance of c00ns who tap dance for security so they always feel comfortable.

Blacks have their own shyt here so the begging is at an min as it's not Milwaukee where everyone Black is broke af and whites gonna hold the racist af L.

Cacs in Atlanta got it made in Atlanta. Not saying Atlanta is a piece of cake for cacs but you can make it MUCH MUCH easier than a BM or BW.

i was an IT manager and i gotta say the indian consultants i hired or worked with were not good for the years of experience they had. i worked with network engineers and database administrators who's work i had to correct and fix and i don't even know much mysql or cisco configuration. part of why they get hired is because they are paid way below market rate. a DB administrator in san francisco should get paid around 140k yet the indians are getting around 80-90k. they are the majority in the market tho. maybe there is a shortage of workers available so indians flood the market.

 

[Jesus]

Cost of living is high int eh DMV. Plus most folks, even myself, are connected in someway to the federal government.

And? Unless you a GS-15 there you ain't making shyt.

 

[staticshock]

What is being argued in here? Blacks dont make that much money here and Atlanta isnt a black mecca?

Atlanta isnt the black mecca because of how much money we make down here. Its the black mecca cause the city and suburbs are majority black. There are probably only 2 white families in my subdivision. Every store I go to I see majority black folk. Fulton County Schools, Atlanta Public Schools, Clayton County Schools, and DeKalb County schools are majority black. Your kids will grow up around their own down here. Every school ive worked in, ive had an all black administration. This current school I work at, I think we have like 80 something faculty and staff including teachers, cafeteria workers, nurses, janitors,etc, and we only have 2 white people who work here. There may be 2-4 white kids total in the school.

You cant just move down here and expect money to fall out the sky. You still have to work for it. If you move here with no degree, then prepare to work in a call center or a warehouse that are filled with black folk.

We dont have high paying jobs like that, but its enough jobs here for everyone to live.

If you dont think Atlanta is a safe haven for blacks, ask the cacs around the south what they think of Atlanta. They hate it with a PASSION. Nashville is to white people, what Atlanta is for us, and thats why so many cacs act like Nashville is a utopia.

This is a silly thread.


Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Jackson, B-Ham, Montgomery, DC, Detroit should all be considered black meccas

 

[Steel]

i was an IT manager and i gotta say the indian consultants i hired or worked with were not good for the years of experience they had. i worked with network engineers and database administrators who's work i had to correct and fix and i don't even know much mysql or cisco configuration. part of why they get hired is because they are paid way below market rate. a DB administrator in san francisco should get paid around 140k yet the indians are getting around 80-90k. they are the majority in the market tho. maybe there is a shortage of workers available so indians flood the market.

There’s no shortage. it’s just capitalism gone wrong. Corporations are cheap and don’t want to pay Americans the wage they are worth. They bring Indians and Chinese Tech workers in to replace Americans and pay them less. It’s a big issue especially with H1B1 abuses. Companies are supposed to use it if they CANT find a qualified candidate for a position but they just ignore all American’s who apply in favor of foreign workers. There’s a famous case of Disney IT workers who were fired and forced to train their Indian replacements. Trump for all his clownery actually stepped in to make it harder for the corporations to bypass hiring Americans and made it much harder for H1B1 applicants

 

[#1 pick]

There’s no shortage. it’s just capitalism gone wrong. Corporations are cheap and don’t want to pay Americans the wage they are worth. They bring Indians and Chinese Tech workers in to replace Americans and pay them less. It’s a big issue especially with H1B1 abuses. Companies are supposed to use it if they CANT find a qualified candidate for a position but they just ignore all American’s who apply in favor of foreign workers. There’s a famous case of Disney IT workers who were fired and forced to train their Indian replacements. Trump for all his clownery actually stepped in to make it harder for the corporations to bypass hiring Americans and made it much harder for H1B1 applicants

Corporations try to do this to Americans in general. I was on the budget committee and these cacs who job was locked in was on some, move the teams to South America shyt to save money. I had created numerous algorithms to prove that their plan wasn't cost effective in the long run but with no fukks given. They move the teams to South America anyway.

The gov't who gives corps all of this money via tax benefits needs to step in and protect the American worker because everyone wants to get promoted and some of these ppl ain't shyt how they get there.

 

[DeuceZ]

My girl and our homie wanted us to up and move to ATL back in 2010, told them once u get a job down there I'll follow Problem is ppl get sold on the nightlife, nice apartments and shyt instead of looking at employment, public transportation, schools, etc

I still get job alerts from ATL but nothing to pique my interest


Classic thread by the way

 

[DeuceZ]

My cousins department in JP Morgan in Philly/DE is relocating to Dallas. He will not be going with them.

A JP Morgan Department in NYC also relocated to Salt Lake City. Ewwwww!

Wouldn't happen to be Autofinance would it?

 

[Balla]

I wonder why more people with degrees who have to settle for entry-level work don't become bank tellers. Theres a bank on every corner, I feel like they are always hiring. I did it for a couple months...looks better on a resume than fast food or department store. And if you get "stuck" there you can be a financial consultant or branch manager within a year or 2...

So bank teller isn’t that bad? From what others have told me, they said that it’s looked at as a low level retail job.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

It’s from 2014 and notice criminal records in the background?

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I realized one has to be a likable person to succeed. Those people just don’t look like a thrill to be around. I had to readjust myself as well.

 

[Balla]

Add in that he HAD a decent job in finance, then the article just said "he lost it" without any of the details that were given like the rest of his story. Not saying it can't happen, I've seen it. But something isn't adding up with that story. I can say with certainty that depending on what area of finance he was in, your reputation will follow you moreso than others. How you lost a job strongly affects the next one you need. Especially in finance.

The football guy knows that it's about connections. The lady made the mistake I see a lot of people make and that's contract work. Essentially, temp work that becomes permanent. Itd be better to work in an entirely different field if you lose a good job than it is to do contract work regularly in that field because that will follow you and do you a great disservice. The problem is the contract work will pay more than the other field you get in to.

What field can you go into that will pay as well as the last of you no degree or experience?