[mylife]

Half the problem is American students dont want to be engineers "its to hard and the payoff is too low"

[indthkr]

"Half the problem is American students dont want to be engineers "its to hard and the payoff is too low"

It's most of the problem from my experience. Just about any American kid who can get an at-or-near perfect GRE score can be assured they can probably graduate from the top of their class at Harvard Law School......and they definitely won't have to worry about not having anybody to talk with in the cafeteria!

[jb6]

Half the problem is American students dont want to be engineers "its to hard and the payoff is too low"

And that's the reality of it and I don't blame them one bit. I spent 3 years working on my second, IT degree. Three years of sitting in computer labs till the sun came up. Three years of breaking by neck reading manuals that would put any insomiac into a coma. And for what? So I can watch half the jobs off shore? So that salaries will fall? So that I have spent 1 of the last 3.5 years unemployed? No thanks. Next month, with my MBA in hand I'll show US IT the middle finger and start a job that has real stability, growth, bonuses, etc.