“Plenty of fresh engineers would LOVE to be making $51K, or working AT ALL.”
What engineer can’t get hired out of school?
PS Nice retort to the teacher, although I must note that many teachers seem to have arms long enough to:
1. Grab their monthly checks faster than a frog grabbing a passing bug.
2. Drag their knuckles as they slouch down the school halls.
It depends what kind of engineer, but there are some that can't find any work - like mechanical engineering which is really depressed right now because of the lack of building and the downsizing of America's manufacturing base.
We just had a waiter who's going into his last year at Miami, who was telling us that most of his friends who graduated this past spring still haven't found any employment in their professional field.