Somebody has to do real work. We need all those visual artists
to keep the video games cranked out.
When I was in college, people went into engineering because
"that was were the jobs were." But really only about 1/3rd of
them actually did engineering. The others became sales,
marketing, bean counter,... types.
There will always be the 2/3rds in college who migrate to
"where the jobs are." Those statistics don't really mean much.
What are the actual jobs they end up in? Few people actually
know what they would like doing when they go to college.
However, if any one knows some good engineers, we are hiring.
And we actually make real stuff, which helps support the other
90% in the banking industry - or those who spend most of their time
justifying their job title and figure out new ways to count beans.
The industry I'm in, there is still quite a bit of demand and we sell
stuff about as fast as we can crank out new designs. Could be
because we are small, and the big, overly bureaucratic companies
require about 10x the resources to do a new design than we do,
so they would rather buy from us than attempt it themselves.
WayneS
At 12/4/2011 10:52 AM, you wrote:
>Well, though the manufacturing sector in America is going sunk, the
>service sector is booming, especially financial service and IT service,
>Wall street and IBM are good examples. Maybe 10 years later, there will
>be more "served by USA" than "made in USA"
>
>I read in a report that only 17% of our kids graduated with a college
>degree in engineering or science, and in 2010, more students graduated
>with a degree of visual or performing arts than those with a degree in
>engineering or science. I guess we will have more "entertained by USA"
>than "made in USA" as well.
>
>Is that a good trend? I don't know, but I am sure it's gonna hurt jobs.
>
>EDB
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