[SSN558]

I am starting school AGAIN, this time to add an AS in EE to my resume instead of anothe CAD software that is only going to be useless in this economy!...(sigh)

The skill set in EE changes faster than CAD software, unless you are in power engineering which is pretty stable from year to year. Beware of specializing in control systems, you could spend months learning a new system and it will be obsolete by years end. When I do a control system, I always figure it is the first and last time that particuliar technology will be employed.

I branched out into structural engineering about a year ago, talk about an unchanging science. My references include Theory of Elastisity, Timoshenko (1959). Some of these old methods produce results identical to an FEA model with 500,000 nodes.

[RaceBannon]

Well, it is the quickest way right now for me, to go to the local Community College, I only need 5 courses for the ASEE since I already got an ASME, plus, I qualified for some aid due to being unemployed so long and underemployed fo the last 2 years!

Either way, I want to go into the trades more than the technology, unless I can learn some SCADA system and get a strong job as a programmer somewhere, but that means manufacturing has to increase, too!

So, TRADES seems to be the way to go, and the AS will get me in the door somewhere, my Nephew just got into his journeyman's and his dad is still friendly with the family, I have some pull somehwere now

Still need the courses...

Someone talkedme into calling a truck company, drive full time over the road, it sounds much more stable than anything I can think of, too...(sigh)