[2019ideas]

>This is what a strong economy actually looks like.

No mention of wages and jobs.

In Electrical Engineering(US), its vicious the amount of competition trying to get me.

Vacation policy? Unpaid, but at 60$/hr, I just afford to take 3 weeks of vacation, but 2 weeks of holidays too.

[vonmoltke]

> In Electrical Engineering(US), its vicious the amount of competition trying to get me.

When did that start? I left EE in about 2006 because I felt like all the employers were very demanding of specific skillsets and treated engineers like they were easily replaceable.

[mikeash]

Congratulations on being in a high-demand field. It’s pretty great. But it’s definitely not the experience for most American workers.

[hpkuarg]

Is the Swedish case the same even for non-high demand fields? I suppose by definition every job (irrespective of compensation or skill needed) would be a high demand field if it takes 12 months to fill; at which point I suggest that what Sweden has is a demographics problem, not a strong economy.

[deogeo]

It's not a demographics problem from the point of view of the workers.