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Really. What do we expect after gutting the aerospace industry in 1970, and approximately every 8 years after that. Sure, it keeps profits high for (more-or-le
by bediger 17y ago
Really. What do we expect after gutting the aerospace industry in 1970, and approximately every 8 years after that. Sure, it keeps profits high for (more-or-less hourly) engineering work, as you have beginners doing it, at beginner's rates. But between the Iron Hand of the FAA, the oddities of the Black Space Program and politics, nobody can have a career in aerospace, so it doesn't attract decent people, much less imaginative innovators.
- yardie 17y agoAs a former aerospace major I have to agree. When I entered the program, Boeing was scaling back their programs and lots of engineers were heading back to school. The consensus I got from former engineers and some professors was it would have been wiser to go into mechanical. Then, if the aerospace jobs fall out you can coast by designing pumps or something. I remember some joke about aerospace engineers and working in fastfood.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoI remember graduating with my CS degree and having multiple job offers, and my electrical and mechanical engineering friends having the same. And the lone aerospace guy in our circle with no job prospects at all. And he'd probably worked the hardest of all of us. Sad.