Even Engineering degrees aren't necessarily the solution. It really depends on the times and severity of a recession. I lived in Malaysia through a time when th

Even Engineering degrees aren't necessarily the solution. It really depends on the times and severity of a recession. I lived in Malaysia through a time when the term "walking engineers" (unemployed engineers) was commonplace. Lots of stories on the net about rocket scientists losing their jobs, and conducting tour buses. What about the name of that guy who's preliminary work on bio-luminescence won someone else a Nobel prize, but he himself is now unemployed? It's human nature to think that we can avoid somebody's misfortune by simply following some known heuristics. It is true only some of the time.