You reap what you sow.
Perhaps they all read too many Dilbert cartoons and figured life in the "cube" wasn't worth it?
Your missing engineers are over here, in a country that rewards talent and hard work, instead of penalizing it to support lazy socialist freeloaders.
A lot of your doctors are here too, and more every day. They are tired of working for bus-driver wages and paying 55% of that in taxes.
I love to see the collectivist dream dying. Keep up the sh*tty work.
-ccm
My Son is a Mechanical Engineer. He said that his company is looking for two more engineers, and having a problem finding them. Apparently, there is a shortage right now.
I'm not surprised that we're raising millions of Al Gore cavemen. Eco-fascists are the most stupid, brainless, brainwashed morons whoever walked the earth.
Without engineers we'd be wearing bear skin suits and digging in dirt for our daily breakfast of grubs and roots.
And without engineers I wouldn't own one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century - a cordless screwdriver with which I can drill needless holes in places where my 300 feet of electrical cord can't reach.
There is a real easy way to get more engineers - raise their salaries - the supply will then increase...
Stupidity is bad for the environment.
Germany was the world center of the mathematics community before WW II, and well represented in science. After WW II they tried to rebuild these communities, but it isn't happening. Look to China and India. India has the edge culturally.
An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates. An intern angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, "Ah, you're an engineer; you're in the wrong place."
So the engineer was cast down to the gates of hell and was let in. Pretty soon, the engineer became gravely dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and began designing and building improvements. After a while, the underworld had air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators, and the engineer was becoming a pretty popular guy among the demons.
One day, God called Satan up on the telephone and asked with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan laughed and replied, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."
God's face clouded over and he exploded, "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake; he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."
Satan shook his head, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."
God was as mad as he had ever been, "This is not the way things are supposed to work and you know it. Send him back up here or I'll sue."
Satan laughed uproariously, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
An engineer from a Germany once told me that his company had trouble setting up manufacturing in the U.S. because we lacked skilled workers. His company made high-tech pumps for ultra-high vacuum.
I bet, there is a correlation, between the decline of the white male, and the demise of engineering....and I am certain there is a correlation between the rise of feminism, and the demise of engineering...
I thought in Germany being an engineer meant you had to spend many years as an apprentice even before you could become an official engineer. That could be another factor in the lack of desire to become an engineer.
"...its sterling reputation as the world's leader in engineering."
Huh?
"All your German rocket scientists are belong to us" (or the rooskis) ;>)
Beliefs have consequences.