Reply #6: Don't let your sons become engineers. [View All]

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Engineering and the hard sciences do, as you point out, require a great deal of work. Remaining current in the field demands still more effort.

The various employers begrudge every dime, and will outsource their jobs in an instant. Ask yourself who will hire them in, say, 30 years - they'll have highly specialized degrees and experience, and NO ONE will want them.

I was foolish enough to get two degrees - A BSc in Engineering, and an MSc in Computer Science. Given the chance to do it over, I would never get a technical degree.

Yes, that's bad for the country. Let the country end outsourcing - not reduce, not control, not twiddle - end it - and I'll think about revising my views.