Re: [Biofuel] Don't Become a Scientist!

[Michael Redler]

O.K. so, we've covered scientist, doctor...

I was laid off from my latest engineering job last year and said to Hell with that! My last few positions as a product design engineer were in title only. It's not unusual for a company to hire an engineer, not have the foggiest notion what to do with one, and end up having him/her become a documentation specialist, filing stuff all day and writing reports.

I am the chairperson of a local section of ASME (but, not for long) and many that I've talked to, tell their children not to pursue engineering as a career choice.

The bureau of labor statistics often lists manufacturing as the only category having a negative number.

"The new jobs are as follows: professional and business services, 27,000; education and health services, 41,000; waitresses and bartenders, 10,000. Manufacturing lost 14,000 jobs."

 

From:
The Death of US Engineering, by Paul Craig Roberts

http://counterpunch.org/roberts06062006.html

 

What's left? Hmmm... Ah yes. Lawyers!

 

-Redler

Mike Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'd skip medicine too. The school debt is staggering and they work you
to death for not that much money. When you calculate the number of hours
you work, the amount needed to pay of your loans it's not such a great
living. My sister is a doctor and she's sure not getting rich, or even
close.

D. Mindock wrote:

>
> http://www.physics.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html
>
>
> Don't Become a Scientist!
>
> Jonathan I. Katz
>
> Professor of Physics
>
> Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
>
> [my last [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Are you thinking of becoming a scientist? Do you want to uncover the
> mysteries of nature, perform experiments or carry out calculations to
> learn how the world works? Forget it!
>
[snip]

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