yeah, yeah don't remind me of grey hair. i learned FORTRAN on PUNCH CARDS.
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What advice would any of you have for my son?
See if any local companies have college internship programs. The more effort put into the search could land something aligned with his goals.
The pay is usually pretty good, but more importantly, will give your son some valuble experience and a possible foot in the door down the road.
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Some are very narrow focused and most are relatively introverted.
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yeah, yeah don't remind me of grey hair. i learned FORTRAN on PUNCH CARDS.
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Some very interesting posts here. I am reminded of an old supervisor of maintenance at a power plant when I started out, he had a corner office and a booming voice. He loved yelling at a new engineer when they asked a dumb question.. "You buys'em books and you buys'em books, and they still don't know nothing!" I get a chuckle out of it every time I remember it.....
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How do you torture and engineer.
Tie him to a chair, stand in front of him and fold a road map the wrong way.
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You know what sucks? It is the pay. In the 1960's a Lockheed engineer in Sunnyvale could graduate from college, start work, buy a house, and buy a car. Today, a starting Lockheed engineer would have to make the choice between renting his own aprtment and driving a beater car, or sharing a room in a communal house and making a new car payment...Oh yes, and you can't afford a family on that new paycheck either.
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...About his major, read the following Paul Craig Roberts column, then talk to him about whether getting that engineering degree is really in his best interest:
The death of US engineering
If your son gets that degree, he might as well start planning to move to China or India. There is little future for the profession here. Roberts said in another column (paraphrased), "How long will parents pay $100,000 for their child's engineering degree when the child will simply end up in a soup line after graduation?"...