<p>and for thread poster, you can check here too
[url=<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm]Engineers[/url”>http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm]Engineers[/url</a>]</p>
<p>This last question will probably decide it for me, so thanks for your help.</p>
<p>How bad is outsourcing effecting CE/CS majors? I always get various answers.</p>
<p>My friend who is Chinese and is majoring in something computer related really loves China, so he might move there if he wanted to, but I can’t see myself moving to China/India…</p>
<p>As I’m not in industry yet, I can’t really say the effects of outsourcing.</p>
<p>However, I will say that if you are passionate about what you do and are very good at what you do, you’ll find a rewarding, well paying job no matter what.</p>
<p>Good response kyt. I’d take it a step further and say that as long as you are passionate about you do you will have not only a rewarding job, but a rewarding career and life. However, that isn’t ALWAYS true. There are some writers for example who are very passionate about writing but struggle to survive their entire lives. It’s important to understand the economy of the labor market in addition to loving what you do.</p>
<p>Is there any amount of overlap between EE (embedded computing systems, specifically) and CS?</p>
<p>Reason I ask is that acceptance to the CS department at my school is strangely competitive (being compared to throwing dart at applications, etc) and I’m trying to gauge my alternatives here.</p>
<p>I cannot speak for how much of private industry work is being outsourced. I know that I was in private sector I.T. until 2004 and had NO worries about my job being outsourced…then again, my area is databases.</p>
<p>I would say one way to avoid all that outsourcing stuff would be to go the INTEL/defense route and try to get on work that requires security clearances. That work SURELY will not be outsourced…plus you make more money.</p>
<p>True Inmotion. But at least in the case of engineering, it’s mostly true =D.</p>
<p>There is overlap between CompE and CS, however, it is usually at the systems level (low level stuff). Anything beyond systems level programming, you’ll have to go out of your way to learn (e.g. take extra classes). Not impossible, but a bit more work.</p>
<p>As long as you can demonstrate your competency and interest (through classes, projects, extracurriculars) in higher level CS stuff, you’ll still be able to get higher level CS jobs as a CompE.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Mind I ask what you majored in GlobalTraveler?</p>