Marks256

Civil is in higher demand than EE, at least in Minnesota.

I think i will go for EE. If i don't like it, as some others have said, it shouldn't be too hard to go CompE

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3v0

Where I worked the people most in demand were the people who double majored in EE and CS. But that was prior to ...

These days I would suggest looking at power engineering for EE's. I doubt many of the engineers climb poles. Most watch from the GND.

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I think the best salaries are in chip design, but the competition may be tough, especially from Indian, Chinese, etc.

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quixotron

Aye, probably the only thing keeping american engineers from being wiped out are government/defense projects.

3v0

And the primary force driving out rest of the hi tech jobs is the governent.

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quixotron

Really? I'd figure it was the corporations who want to pinch every penny and maximize profit.

rjvh

I learned on school 63 Volts

so it means also that the majority of welding machines are hazardus equipment

the thing is that the majority of the acsidents hapens due to stupidity of not folowing the safety instructions either by yourself or your coleuga

and those safety procedures are part of your education on school

Robert-Jan

3v0

I am sure I have told this story before.

Many of our engineers had wifes working on the factory floor. They were about to loose their jobs. The big wigs came to explain why we needed to move our factory overseas.

One engineer asked what pay cut the manufacturing workers would have to take to keep their jobs.

The big wig explained, even if our people worked for free it would still be cheaper to build the products overseas. The major problem was taxes not wages.

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quixotron

Well freedom/liberty/luxury costs money!!! Can't have both!

Nigel Goodwin

Similar here as well, taxing companies to death, most manufacturing has now moved from the UK to places with better tax structures.

The tax which caused most to move was a 'so called', energy efficiency tax - playing on the 'green bandwagon' - but simply taxing companies on the energy they used. No problem, sack all the UK workers and move to Lithuania or China!.

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Ambient

You are not gonna avoid the psychology, history, etc. classes no matter where you go. For accredited colleges they are required for all majors. For my last semester I took History of Roman Civilization, and that was actually interesting. But the rest were crap. For one class I ended up with an Indian prof. who learned English in Germany! Woa what a messed up accent he had...

I took EE. The nice thing is when you take EE you are only a few classes away from a math minor, and a few away from CE.

Marks256

Math minor, eh? hmm....

Maybe i will go for EE. That way i won't be too far from other opportunities.


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quixotron

How do you feel about that? Honest, no side jokes or anything.

3v0

You do not get it.

Actually we could have both with better government ! We may have neither if this is not corrected soon.

All taxes come back to people. The elected officials do not want to ask people to pay taxes directly because it would lessen their chances for re-election.

Instead they tax the employers/companies who simply leave. The cowards are costing us our jobs and the country(s).

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kchriste

Taxes have something to do with it, but the main reason is the cheapness of labor over in China, India and elsewhere.

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