Happened again today. My former colleagues back in California are continuing to be totally unable to lure not only good applicants for open positions....they aren't getting ANY applicants for jobs that are up around $200k/year. Nobody. I have been telling them, "Any good engineer who isn't attached to California via some government job has already left. One by one they are starting to agree with me. Today I was playing golf with a high-tech engineering type. His wife is a pediatric dentist who just opened her own practice. Can barely find enough help to open the doors. In general...it seems like nobody wants to work. I said, "This reminds me of a book I first read 15 years ago..." Went on to explain Atlas Shrugged. As I said to him today...I am really surprised at how much it is starting to feel non-fiction lately. Pretty amazing...