[Maximum Leader]

Sorry, I got to this thread late. My advice to your son would be, the only sure thing in life is death and taxes. The only secure careers in the future are in health care and government. The leg up that your son has over all the H1-Bs is that he's a US Citzen, thus he can get a security clearance.

Also, if you're going to fake minorities-- remember that Asians are higher-achieving in terms of income than even European-Americans, so many instutitions don't consider them disadvantaged like blacks and hispanics are.

What I would recommend is your son label himself a Hispanic and if anyone inquires why he has a "white" name (and they won't because its sort of prying), he can say his mother is Cuban. Look at Bill Richardson... Mexican-American pol, but you'd never guess it from his name.

[tm22721]

The only secure careers in the future are in health care and government.

These flourishing fields are highly unionized.

But engineers are highly independent types and resistant to unionization due to the 'stigma' attached to that word.

Engineers will have to come down off their high horses and start creating bureaucracies, and fighting management.

BUMP

[Spyder]

Not too late - thanks for answering. I was joking about the ethnicity bit... but I know what you mean. OTOH, there is still some discrimination in Hawaii in some jobs against non-Asians.

Even healthcare isn't that secure - I started as a physical therapist, wrote my own ticket for 20 years, then the bottom fell out of it. It's come back somewhat but I discovered I like doing transcription from home a lot, even if it doesn't quite pay what PT does.

[FreedomAvatar]

The only secure careers in the future are in health care and government.

Given that this country is continuing to drown in an ever-deepening sea of litigation, being a lawyer is one career with a "bright" future.

Of you could build strip-malls.