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My recent project descriptions could fall under three of the top ten engineering fields.

Would these be nerd or geek jobs? Not that it really matters for me anyway; I have a pair of glasses held together with a staple...

 
ngnrd - PE said:
^^^ Electrical Engineering is #17.
Everybody knows that EE isn't real engineering... That's probably why MS didn't count it.

Or, it could be that ME's aren't very good at reading... :ph34r: Yeah, that's probably it.
Ya know, I was going to say something to the effect of EE not really being an engineering discipline, but that's like proclaiming that blue is a primary color. And ngnrd has a point... I really don't know how I made it past 2nd grade.

 
"My parents didn't suggest anything to me, but I'm glad I switched to civil engineering. It seems to have paid off, for sure."

http://www.studentsreview.com/unemployment_by_major.php3

Civil Engineering Unemployment: 13.3%

Mechanical Engineering Unemployment: 6.3%

and then...

History Majors Unemployment: 4.9%

Maybe as a minority or female there are government jobs available. But there is no whitewashing the disaster of picking civil engineering as a major... Just ask the kids getting out of school. It is the *worst* major this side of architecture - which is downright pitiful.

 
maybe it just means that the nerds in question that couldn't find a job in their own field were able to find some kind of employment elsewhere and not report as "unemployed". I don't know about you-all, but where I live the quality of employees at Walmart and the grocery has definitely gone up. It seems like a lot of them have college degrees...
That is called under-employeed in the world of Economics. Anyone who is doing tasks other than what they could get maximum pay for is under-employeed. I have been in that boat even in an engineering position for a while now.

 
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