<p>i've recently been told that, unlike the 60s and 70s, engineers are in high demand. stick with it!</p>
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I heard about that myth too. My godfather was an aerospace engineer working for Boeing, and got fired in the early 1990s. He made a good living, had almost half a million in stocks, nice house, and everything. He couldn't get a job as an engineer so he went into real estate. He recommends that I don't pursue engineering, he says that there are alot of oversea engineers from India and China that are being hired for lower pay than American engineers.
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<p>Hey, there are a lot of overseas * everything * being hired for lower pay. For example, a lot of accounting work, especially the grunt work, is now being outsourced to India. A lot of the grunt financial research work is being outsourced. We already have a nascent medical outsourcing industry, especially for elective surgery - i.e. you can get cheap plastic surgery and LASIK overseas. </p>
<p>Besides, look at the starting salaries of engineers these days. I am still convinced that engineering is still among the most marketable bachelor's degrees you can get. One might ask - why are companies paying American EE's 54k to start, if offshoring the work is so easy? Are they being dumb? </p>