[RightWhale]

It's a pattern that's recurring with surprising, and disturbing, frequency in a profession long known for job security.

Remembering the 70s. This was not a new situation even then. Engineers can expect to be pounding the pavement looking for work at some point. Comes with the territory.

[Thebaddog]

The engineers that work for me are all control freaks with a superiority complex. And the bosses do need to be in control whatever Dilbert thinks.

[Anchoragite]

Engineers can expect to be pounding the pavement looking for work at some point.

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.)