" I sit next to a fellow engineer who has been here 18 years. Both of us discuss how our careers went nowhere while the "executive staffers" reap all the company rewards."
All very true. I have one engineer kid (brilliant genius advanced degreed innovtive and creative) who works in DC for a private company and makes so little money he qualified for DC's low income assistance to buy a tiny little falling down row house in a bad section.
Why should he bust his neck developing all these fantastic things get paid peanuts and then get fired so someone can hire a techie from India whose stuff will have to be redone by some American engineer who will bust his back and then get fired?
Bush better think long and hard about what he is doing.
And Microsoft will open another office in Bangelore.
My kid was heading down the engineering path. He had the pre-req Calculus courses and the science courses under his belt, but decided to change majors...due to job outlook.
He spoke with several engineering profs, business professionals, read business and tech articles and then talked to the advisers at the School of Business at his University. There is a Business degree that requires Calculus, so he figured he'd be a leg up by enrolling in that major which includes some business, some management courses, and IT courses. He'll also complete that degree by the time he's 20 (he was early admission) and then can get his MBA.
He'll graduate with the Masters at about the same time he'd have had his engineering degree.
At first we were against it, but the more his dad and I thought about it the more we agreed. (His dad is an engineer who's moved into management and hires other engineers., and when a job is posted he can't believe the level of "overqualified" applicants who are willing to work below the pay level that they should be making with their credentials.)
He has, which is why I have written him off other than the WOT.
At times, he seems like Damien Thorn re-incarnated.