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There is age bias. Engineer often change profession once he gets older.
by jkot 12y ago
There is age bias. Engineer often change profession once he gets older.
- dwarfcadaver 12y agoMaybe they become bartenders, or pursue a dream of professional dancing...
- jhugg 12y agoIs that broadly true, or are you thinking of software engineers?
- 3pt14159 12y agoBut even so, this amount of skew is way higher than could be explained by that alone.
- QuercusMax 12y agoIs this actually true for engineers in general, or just software/electrical engineers?
- dagw 12y agoReally? My family is full of 50+ year old engineers and I can't think of any engineers that I know that changed careers as they got older. Sure some of them may have taken on more management responsibilities as they got older, but non of them left engineering.
- imgabe 12y agoIf you're thinking of only the 50+ engineers you know, of course those ones haven't changed careers. You'd have to think of some 50+ year old actors or chefs you know and find out if they used to be engineers.
- dagw 12y agoFair point. Let me rephrase. Of everybody I know how's done a late career switch, engineers are extremely underrepresented, to the point I can't think of any. The closet I can come up with is a surveyor, which I suppose counts an engineer in some places. The most common educational backgrounds to lead to a later life career switch in my limited observation is either teaching or banking/finance.
- Igglyboo 12y agoHave any sources for this? My experiences say the complete opposite.