All true. However, I do have some concerns. For us Gen X'ers (in our 30's and 40's) who started out following the example of Baby Boomers by educating ourselves and establishing a career with a firm only to find ourselves priced out of the labor market with offshoring, H1-B's or those priced out of the trades via illegal labor, what is the remedy?
Can someone in their mid-30s, trained to manage dozens of employees be retrained for employment in the trades? Would the trades accept such a person?
It would appear that the "right" degree is a STEM degree, according to FR. Can the same individual, educated and trained in business become an electrical engineer?
Getting a EE degree nearly burned me out and I was a teenager / early 20 something. They say it is the hardest degree to get.
Valid points. I ended up working in presentations centers of investment banks. Indians think it is beneath them and never knew I was making more than them in tech :)
trying times for a manager, you are right.
I have a degree in EE, yes, it was difficult— I also got a credential to teach — less difficult, harder to find work.
Our son got a degree in business, did not fancy working as hard as his boomer dad. Ended up learning programming and now is an analyst and Visual Basic master.
So there is the answer. do’t go for EE, go for CS. Master a programming language and get back in the rat race.