Re: a few careers worth going to college from a ROI POV
  By: August Abolins to Arelor on Sun Aug 15 2021 09:35 pm

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Sunday 15.08.21 - 19:49, you wrote:
 > 
 >  A>   By: August Abolins to Mark Hofmann on Sun Aug 15 2021
 >  A>   06:19 pm I would add engineer to the list.
 > 
 >  A> I wouldn't :-)
 > 
 >  A> Computer Scientists seem to have it better than your
 >  A> regular engineers, and even them are sucking it big time
 >  A> depending on where they land.
 > 
 > Well.. there is Computer Engineering that would fall into that
 > mix.  I would think that jobs surrounding data security would
 > be in high demand.
 > 
 > But I could agree that there may indeed be only a handful of
 > engineering categories that would be guaranteed long-term
 > successes.
 > 
 > --
 >   ../|ug

The issue with Engineers is a single fat dude with an adiction to junk food can
control 6 000 PLCs from an armchair.

The number of actual engineers you need for a given operation is usually very
low. The fat guy of the PLCs is making lots of kilobucks but he is going to be
the only one. The rest of the Engineers in the classroom are going to be
working under they qualification.

Last time I applied for being a fat dude who ate junk food while controlling 6
000 PLCs there were 300 candidates within 1 hour of the job offer being posted.
There was a single vacancy. The fact I even managed to make it to the interview
is a feat in itself.

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