<VV> RE: Interesting Article ...NOW Engineer (no Corvair)

[Duane, Jim]

	My son, now a sophomore at RPI, wants to be an engineer, just
like Dad (I'm flattered,BTW)  Engineers, or at least the ones I know,
tend to BE engineers because they love the work.  I told him what's
happening in the workforce. My advice:
	Be a well rounded Engineer.  Master another language.  Take
project management.  Work a few years in the US.  Be willing to travel.
Then YOU might be the guy who directs other engineers.  

Jim Duane
'66 180 Corsa CVT
Colonial Corvairs
CORSA

    

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What's all this about the lack of employment opportunities for
engineers? My employer, Cessna Aircraft, as well as Bell Helicopter, is
hiring all engineering disciplines. If there are any engineers out there
that are interested in working on airplanes in Wichita, send them my
way.
 
In case you don't know Cessna doesn't just built "bug smasher"
airplanes. We have 60% of the market on small to mid size business jets
including the fastest commercial aircraft in production.
 
Ned
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Cepak, Tom A <tom.a.cepak at lmco.com>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:08:41 -0500
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Jim,

I hate to bust your bubble even further about your son's potential job
prospects, but, major corporations are now outsourcing the programming
and web development jobs overseas.  
They can and are paying the software developers in India 1/3 the salary
of what the software developers are being paid here.  The only industry
that is fairly immune right now to the outflow of professional
engineering and software jobs is the defense industry.  This is only
because most major projects have U.S. only and Classified hardware and
software requirements levied on them.  But unfortunatly, we are seeing
the people at corporate level management of our subcontractors
stretching the definition of US only.
Another problem with defense is that it is very cyclical.  We went from
32,000+ employees at my location in
1992 to 12,000+ employees by 1996.  Now with a few new contracts we're
at around 16,000+.

Tom




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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:24:14 -0400
From: Jim Houston <tampatexan at earthlink.net>
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    Corvair)
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My son graduated from Embry Riddle last year with a BS in Aerospace
Engineering (he is now working on a Masters)...  but it looks like the
best job opportunities for him are going to be in the computer field (he

also does programming and web development)..  Engineering??  Don't know
yet...

Jim Houston
Brandon, FL 

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