<p>I know that the job market is really bad, and that a lot of recent graduates in all engineering majors are having trouble finding jobs.</p>
<p>I think there is one important thing to remember: the current job market, and lack of availability of jobs in certain engineering disciplines, does not render majors in these disciplines useless.</p>
<p>I am graduating late for my age, and so I know students in many different engineering majors, who have not gotten jobs! This includes all majors!</p>
<p>I think we need to look at the current hiring climate in the long term. Is this nation’s infrastructure in pretty bad shape? The answer is yes. That means that sometime in the future, it will need to be repaired/replaced. I have no idea when this will happen, but that means the civil engineers will be needed sometime in the future.</p>
<p>I bet we can find parallels for most engineering disciplines.</p>
<p>Fact is, anybody graduating right now drew the short straw on when they were born. If they’re lucky, they will get a job before they graduate. All that we can do is try to put ourselves in the best situation when we graduate to make ourselves more desirable to companies than our peers.</p>