[gooleyman]

Do you know that a substantial number of engineering students are leaving this field because they know there will be no jobs when they graduate?

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If I had looked at Engineering that way before I graduated, I would have changed majors and missed out on the boom. I graduated in 1979. Just 2-years before that, a graduating Engineering student couldn't even buy a job. When I came out, I had offers from 4 different companies. Interviews with many more. It's kind of like I've heard about seeing a NASCAR crash ahead of you on the track. See the crash and drive right toward it. By the time you get there, it will be gone.

[blueriver]

If I had looked at Engineering that way before I graduated, I would have changed majors and missed out on the boom.

What is occuring is not a temporary decline in jobs. The jobs still exist, the difference now is that the jobs are in other counties. If you think there will be an upside to this you are dreaming.