[oceanview]

give it up. this field is dead as a profession for americans, its all slowly going offshore, and young people headed for college best see this trend and move into something else that is going to be around, if they want to have a career and earn a decent living.

[2banana]

give it up. this field is dead as a profession for americans, its all slowly going offshore, and young people headed for college best see this trend and move into something else that is going to be around, if they want to have a career and earn a decent living.

Like what - become a plumber or electrician or working for the government...?

[avg_freeper]

I owe a lot to people like you who propagate the myth that engineering jobs are hard to find.

The low enrollment for mech. and aero. engineering degrees is why companies beg on their knees for stress/loads engineers.

Keep it up.

[superfries]

I read this all the time on FR but my anecdotal evidence seems to support the opposite. I recruit for one of the nations largest defense contractors and am continuously searching for hardware/software RF, LO, EO/IR, system integration and design engineering types with clearances to fill my engineering jobs and I am telling you, the talent isn't out there. It hasn't been pushed off-shore either, I need US citizens with clearances and the battle is raging between the big boys for this talent.

[nightdriver]

"give it up. this field is dead as a profession for americans, its all slowly going offshore, and young people headed for college best see this trend and move into something else that is going to be around, if they want to have a career and earn a decent living."

Yeah, sadly.

Did you see where Boeing is farming out the design of the subsystems of the new 787 to a Russian design bureau?

It gives pause to us engineers who used to design some pretty good airplanes for Boeing.

[bert]

Drivel. Pure unadultrated drivel.