<p>My brother who retired from the Air Force as an electrical engineer was laid off from Boeing in the spring, and hasn’t found anything else yet.</p>
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<p>EK4, there are jobs available if he is willing to relocate. PM me.</p>
<p>This is a tough time for anyone to find jobs, particularly ones that pay a living wage. For those kids who graduate with a liberal arts degree or other type of diploma that is not job specific, a wise investment would be taking courses of study at community or tech colleges that will give a specific skill in addition to that great educational experience that was received during the 4 year experience. That can really open up opportunities. I know a young lady who took medical transcription at CC and got a good starting position really more on that skill than her BA from a good liberal arts school in English. But now three years later, she has really moved up in her job and is now taking an evening MBA program to continue. I have no doubt she is going to do well. However, before she got that transcription certificate, it was difficult for her to find anything with such prospects. The same with a young man I know who got his air traffic controllers certificate. Not a controller anymore, but has a high paying position within airline management that would have not been as easily possible with his economics degree. The specific skill and cert made a big difference in launching his career.</p>
<p>Itsmethere, in your situation, it is particularly important to have a specific skill that is needed. Medical transcription or billing, perhaps. You need to look at the fields where they NEED skilled workers, and then you need to get one of those skills. The young lady I know who got her medical transcription certification is handicapped (wheel chair bound), but has found an environment that works with her as she has the skills they really need.</p>
<p>Just a thought about medical transcription. Many of those tasks are being shifted to electronic records and/or voice recognition, with “humans” doing just editing. I’ve seen jobs lost there, in the last 7 or so years. Can’t help wonder if billing will change too.</p>
<p>S1 is a social science/humanities guy who just received a great job offer for next year. He is thinking about putting off grad school for a year or two as a result (which I wholeheartedly support).</p>
<p>Yep, I was tipped off to the age of the thread when I read this:</p>
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<p>I think people come from message boards where they are yelled at for starting repetitive threads, and everyone says to them, “Do a search! Find an old thread!”</p>
<p>To the poster who resurrected this thread, you have some very individual concerns. Why not start a new thread for yourself that will get more attention?</p>