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If you’re a civil engineering major, are your job prospects largely beyond your control? The 2006 lazy guy would get a job and get laid off during the bust, but he would at least get some money and work experience. The 2009 hardworking guy, however, would have neither of those two things.</p>
<p>On the other hand, other majors don’t seem to be affected much by the recession. For EE/CS majors at that school, only 20% are still looking for jobs, while 52% are employed:
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/EECS.stm</a></p>
<p>Looking forward, how bad is the situation for 2011 civil engineering grads? The stock market is up, GDP is growing again, and unemployment is slowly coming down, but the construction industry is terrible and is continuing to get worse every day :(</p>