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gogeta 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? A Masters in either Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering is always a safe bet. The programming and IT fields are pretty full. Make sure any engineering degree is ABET accredited. Check it out here first. www.abet.org |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? Are we talking at least a Bachelorīs degree? If so, much of his work during the first 2 years will be general education courses that are required for everything. He can use this time to take some electives and explore several areas that he might be interested in. The college career center should be helpful to him as well. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? if he is interested in real work, a trade would be the way to go, thatīs pretty much the only thing that canīt get outsourced tech jobs are a waste of time tell him to try plumbing or HVAC or electrical |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? īRead the want ads before declaring your major.ī |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? The first year of college is an intense period of adjustment for your teen. They will be integrating all kinds of new life skills as well as a higher degree of personal responsibility into their life. Why preemptively pigeon hole them into a career choice? The first years of college are always about general requirements anyway. Why donīt you relax and see what direction they want to go in a year or so. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? Engineering Is where he should look, but only if he can tie his own shoes. I am not being rude but a lot go to school get degrees and cant do the job. I DO NOT have a degree but this is what I do. I make 25 dollars an hour. |
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gogeta 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? The reason I said Masters is in todays jobmarket, without one, you are looking at a major difference in posistion and salary. We employ about 50 people, out of those 50, we have around 6 PHDīs, and about 30 Masters. Just helping him plan ahead. Once getting out, it is horribly hard getting that Masters while working full time in a career. |
Parsingman 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? Okay, since there is most likely a draft coming mid-year, maybe an education overseas. Barring that, Iīd stay away from most high-tech, as itīs being exported. Biotech *might* be okay. Alternative medical would be good too (chiropractic, naturopath, etc.) A trade would be good, as you canīt export a job that requires a warm body present. Dentist, electrician, air-conditioning -- all good areas. Software, computer stuff, IT -- all bad. There will be waaaay too much competition for too few jobs. All this IMHO, of course. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: I Need Help. I have a son about to enter college. What is the best career choice for him these days? My son loves and is good in math and science but is afraid that by the time he gets his degree the technical jobs will pretty much be outsourced<<< Only the technical sit on your ass ones. If he WILL work and put forth ideas he will go far. Its the lazy dope smoking morons that are being left behind. |
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