When I graduated from SUNY Forestry school in 1985, all the paper science engineers had multiple job offerings prior to graduating. It was basically chemical engineering oriented to making paper. However, most of those paper mills were in small towns in the middle of the woods. Ok place to work if you liked just to hunt and fish, but not a lot of night life. Also, a tough place to move to for a single young man.
Not too many potential future Mrs. Woodbutchers. if you know what I mean.
I graduated with a degree in wood products engineering. I was offered a job in Graying, MI at a particleboard plant. It turned it down because there was nothing to do in Grayling other than hunt fish and snowmobile. I went into selling wood products instead of manufacturing them. At least I did not go into the furniture manufacturing industry. I would have had to move to China. Some of my classmates did. They had to switch industries when all the plants moved offshore.