[Chi-townChief]

"Training, not surprisingly, can be long and grueling and often irrelevant. One engineer I met, who works for General Dynamics, told me that 95 percent of what he learned in college–a prestigious one–was irrelevant to his work."

I made this very same observation in a job interview one time (the interviewer and have the same alma mater); big mistake !!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Because most landscape architecture projects don't have as many components as the design for a building

Duh...ya think? If a garden gnome tips over, people usually don't die. ;)

[jveritas]

However it is absolutely true and most engineers agree with this.

[jigsaw]

Professional Freeper.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's true for most buisiness administration/IT/corporate office-type jobs. Just about everything relevant is learned on the job. A college degree is four years spent to keep HR departments from throwing your resume in the trash unread. ;)

[Buck W.]

Probably true, but college prepares an engineer for a generalist career--it's not meant to be an apprenticeship.

[goodnesswins]

READ THIS ONE....

Clergy. Want the satisfaction of doing good? You'll routinely play a significant role in major life events such as birth, marriage, crisis, and death. Plus this career offers status, normally modest work hours, and often good salaries. You needn't necessarily have unquestioned faith in God. I've spoken with a number of clergy who have deep questions about the nature and even existence of a Supreme Being.

[kstewskis]

Physical therapist. Yet another one-on-one healthcare career, which, like the others, will be in growing demand. Boomers will need increasing hands-on care to recover from strokes, replaced hips, and other infirmities that come with aging.

Physical Therapy has always been a growing profession, and I've been involved in it for almost 20 years.

It's not only aging, but more kids are into sports and are injured at an alarming rate. The type of injuries (and surgeries) we used to see in late high school or college just ten years ago, we're beginning to see in they younger kids.

I've never been busier than I have been in the last 4-5 years as being self employed. There is a huge demand.

[speedy]

There is a severe shortage of alligator wrestlers right now.

[Jhohanna]

Apparently, I'm *so* in the wrong line of business. :\ Systems Engineering *isn't* where it's at???? And I thought girls were good at this!

[rbg81]

Training, not surprisingly, can be long and grueling and often irrelevant. One engineer I met, who works for General Dynamics, told me that 95 percent of what he learned in college–a prestigious one–was irrelevant to his work.

Especially if you end up working as a "Power Point" engineer.

[Fledermaus]

What no accountants? Good. No competition! lol

[SamAdams76]

What a dumb premise for an article. An Excellent Career is ANYTHING you like doing!

[OKSooner]

"You needn't necessarily have unquestioned faith in God. I've spoken with a number of clergy who have deep questions about the nature and even existence of a Supreme Being."

This explains a certain Lutheran Minister in "A large city in Oklahoma" who turned out to be just a mean SOB.

[Chickensoup]

All these sweet helping careers. Why not choose a career to make money and use your head instead of all these feminine nancy-nurse careers, and outlooks.

[freespirited]

Professor. This career offers stimulating work, lots of autonomy, status, and the comforting confines of academe.

Comforting confines? Only if you are a liberal to barking moonbat.

[School of Rational Thought]

Right now, I would take any job.

[RFEngineer]

"General Dynamics, told me that 95 percent of what he learned in college–a prestigious one–was irrelevant to his work. "

Failure to see the forest for the trees.......a college education is wasted on someone like this.

[Ciexyz]

My Daddy was an engineer. That was my family's ticket to the middle class.

[conservative barking moonbat]

>>One career hazard is the offshoring of technical work to low-cost countries like India and China, with thousands of skilled engineers willing to work for 80 percent less than their counterparts in the United States. Some of the safest jobs involve government-related work.<<

Love the last sentence.