Agreed. They ought not get too attached to a given geographic area nowadays, either... In order to get a job, you often *must* move.
(From someone who was very nearly homeless as a result of *refusing* to leave Alaska, but overqualified for every non-industrial job he sought during a three-year drought.)
I am an engineer. I have three college degrees and working on a 4th, "MBA". I have two P.E. licenses. The longest I have ever remained in one job is about four years. Some jobs are much shorter than that six months or less.
I have put rockets in space, drove the train that I helped engineer, and been involved in some other exciting projects.
I have also been down to my last dime after almost two years of unemployment.
A recent study by NSPE sez that the average time on the job for an engineer is now about 3.5 years and the average is getting shorter. It may be even less for those in the rapidly changing high tech jobs. You can't plan any kind of life around an engineering career.
Another study sez that the average engineering career will pay for itself after about fifteen years. This includes all mannner of things such as lost earnings while attending school, paying off education loans, the fact that engineers rarely get to work a forty hours week......and that is the average so at least half of you are not doing that good.
Meanwhile our engineering professional organizations, (I belong to five of these) shamelessly promote the profession to all manner of young people. Some of them are going to die ugly and waste years of their life persuing a dead end, engineering career.