On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:40:25 -0800, "
wrote:

On Nov 4, 6:24 am, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

So if engineering is a dead end carreer, what would you recommend for
a kid to go into?



Yes...engineering as a profession does not pay as others do with
comparable training. While you MAY get a higher starting salary,
subsequent compensation increases are minor.


As I said before, where are the older engineers?



TMT

Well I can tell you where a few older engineers are. Don Foreman is
here having done engineering for his whole career. Ditto me. And I
think ditto Jeff Wisnia. Add Martin Eastburn to the list. Joseph
Gwinn! Anthony!

Some of the older engineers are the guys providing the knowledge that
younger ones use to write the software that the even younger ones use
to design stuff -- because without the software "designer in a jar"
software tools, many of them couldn't design a doorbell.

Until quite recently there were about no young power elex engineers,
and there are damned few competent young analog circuit designers.

I know guys in their 70's who are still workin', certainly not because
they have to. It's an activity they enjoy as much as anything, so
they keep doing it.

I still pick up an occasional consulting gig if it looks interesting.
Proceeds go directly to the toy budget! The decision from there is
what caliber.... G