<p>" What if you can’t get a job and want to start your own business. I can’t think of a better degree than an Engineering degree for that…"</p>
<p>Precisely what business skills does an engineering program offer? Accounting? Finance? Economics? Business law? Marketing?</p>
<p>“We’re in a bad spot right now with the economy, but it will turn around.”</p>
<p>I wish it would, but most of those 8 million + jobs we lost are NEVER coming back. NEVER. High unemployment is going to be a way of life from this point on. Welcome to the jobless recovery.</p>
<p>“Precisely what business skills does an engineering program offer? Accounting? Finance? Economics? Business law? Marketing?”</p>
<p>Except for accounting, those are mostly just soft skills. Marketing, Econ, and Finance are pretty much common sense stuff with fancy jargon to go with them. </p>
<p>America did not become great because of its corporate attorneys and its accountants. It became great because of its engineers and its scientists. People like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison have driven this country to success. We invented the computer and put man on the moon. I make more money selling stuff I design and produce in my garage than I ever could in an entry-level business job requiring soft skills like Marketing knowledge. </p>
<p>“I wish it would, but most of those 8 million + jobs we lost are NEVER coming back. NEVER. High unemployment is going to be a way of life from this point on. Welcome to the jobless recovery.” </p>
<p>Ten years ago I didn’t think I’d be carrying a 9 cubic inch phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, a video display, and internet access. The neutron wasn’t even discovered until 1932. Technological innovation and discovery, and the corresponding economic growth isn’t going to stop. We don’t even know what the next great things that improve our standard of living will be.</p>
<p>Pakistan is most definitely not a Failed state. Just look at its GDP of over 450 Billion dollars.</p>
<p>Pakistan’s GDP per capita is even higher than India. Its currency is 1 dollar to 85 rupees which is a equivalent to Japan’s yen exchange rate w/ the dollar.</p>
<p>It is true that they are having problems with terrorism and the devastating floods that have effected more than 20 million people, destroyed 4 million houses, damaged major factories/power plants aren’t helping the situation but in no way is it a failed state. They have a functioning government and a strong military that is trying to fight terrorism.</p>
<p>Just recently for the first time since India and Pakistan split the ISI has stated that the number one threat to Pakistan’s national security is NOT India but Islamic extremism. This shows a huge step forward for the government and its intelligence service.</p>
<p>I have been to both India and Pakistan because my Mom is from Pakistani Kashmir and my Dad is from Indian Punjab and so I have a decent understanding of both countries.</p>
<p>I admit that Pakistan has a long way to go but it isn’t as bad as people are led to believe.
Pakistan in many places is still a very peaceful place to live like the Hunza valley in Kashmir. India and Pakistan are not so different from each other.</p>
<p>I believe that both India and Pakistan should team up and try and make South Asia a better place like it used to be. India and Pakistan have so much potential together!</p>
<p>Both countries have really hard working people. Both countries have amazing culture, history, architecture and landscapes like Kashmir. Both countries are so similar in so many ways so its time we team up again and reunite!</p>
<p>I mean what it really comes down to is that Pakistanis are just Indians that were Muslim.</p>
<p>Actually while Henry Ford did help to revolutionize the automobile industry its not an excuse for his racist attitude, hatred toward Jews, Nazi ideologies and admiration towards Hitler.</p>
<p>btw The Bush family also gave millions of dollars to the Nazi.</p>
<p>Company founder Henry Ford was a notorious anti-Semite who wrote a 1921 pamphlet, “The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem,” and other anti-Jewish articles admired by Adolf Hitler. In 1938, the year before the war began, Hitler awarded the American industrialist the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest honor the Nazis bestowed on foreigners.</p>
<p>There is no real reason to be worried about the future. Take a look around you. There is a ton of untapped demand everywhere. There is a lot of work to be done, that has not been done, and must be done, sooner or later.</p>
<p>Yes, there is outsourcing, amoral corporations, political inanity, economic uncertainty, among others. All these problems simply mean there is a crapload of stuff to work on, and those who are able to innovate, create, invent, or simply fix some of these problems will succeed.</p>
<p>+1, Enginox. That’s the advantage of growing older. You have a little perspective. You know things will get better, you just have to be patient. I was much more panicked in the early 90s - believe me, things were BAD then, too. College students today were still toddlers then, so they don’t remember it. We were hearing the same doomsday stuff back then, believe it or not.</p>
<p>^ Not all college students! I must admit, I graduated high school around that time and saw all of these college graduates unable to find a job. When I was offered my current job during a summer internship, I decided to skip college in favor of the job (oops). It wasn’t a terrible decision, but I wish I went to school back then rather than going through it now.</p>
<p>I graduated high school in 2000 and immediately after, I enrolled in college in a CS program; however, I dropped out after 1 semester to explore the world, make $, and live independently. The one thing I learned is that I am not mentally cut out for manual labor or technician work, even though I excelled at it. I also learned that even though I hate the ridiculousness of the corporate world, I am very proficient at BSing my way through it, at least at the lower/middle levels.</p>
<p>Most importantly, I learned that when things hit rock bottom, the only way they can go is up (or straight ahead if you are a pessimist ■■■■■■■). I would only worry if there is a huge asteroid heading straight to Earth (in which case, there is going to be a lot engineers being hired :))</p>
<p>anyone here have an idea of the job outlook for the different civil concentrations? </p>
<p>construction engineering and management
Construction material
Environmental
Hydrology
Geotechical
Structual
Transportation</p>
<p>I wanted to have my primary field in structure and secondary field in construction management , but I am now taking a construction management class and it is very boring.</p>
<p>What kind of stuff interests you? What is it about the class that bores you? Construction management (not construction engineering) is not really engineering. You don’t really design anything, nor do you usually much complex math or physics. It’s definitely not a field for the typical engineer; it’s just a field that has a lot of engineering majors in it. Construction management isn’t for everybody. It’s all about managing the construction process for time, cost and safety. </p>
<p>What I will say is working on an actual project has a much different feel than learning about it in a classroom environment.</p>