<p>Probability and statistics are going to be involved, to a certain degree, in most engineering disciplines. I hated probstat, too, and was glad to be "done" with it, and then I got into seismic engineering and risk management models and stochastic and probabilistic models and blah blah blah... I was like, "Wh...!! THIS IS PROBABILITY! I was NOT told that there would be probability involved!!"</p>
<p>It was a bit of a rude awakening, but I got through it because it was directly related to stuff I liked.</p>
<p>And yeah, Civ's far better shielded from outsourcing. It's just plain cheaper to hire a local firm, what with field visits and such.</p>