>>11452915Engineering is the new CS.
Prepare to smell your coworker Vaneesh's homemade curry slop every lunch for the next 40 years.
And the turboautist catering from HR because Stewie never learned to talk to a girl.
And to get passed up over a promotion by a woman less qualified than you, who will only reward other like-minded women.
And for the impact of your work to go down, and your wages to deplete but still be *just* good enough to be considered "middle" middle class.
It's a scheme: colleges get grants from the government and tech megacorps for STEM grads, but science and math are too hard for midwits so they focus on pushing everyone into tech (CS) and engineering.
Naturally, in their quest to increase graduates, the quality of education goes down, so more likely than not your employer will want you to go to grad school, where you will have to take on loans and become a slave to debt for the rest of your life, middling away in middle class nonexistence. But then grad school becomes the new undergrad, and the quality will soon go down there, too.
This is what will start to happen this decade. You will pay more and more money for a shittier and shittier education. The companies will need to train you more, and new grads will be paid less because they know jack shit from their BS (bullshit) degree.
>>11453138Engineering jobs as a whole are projected to increase ~4-6%. The average industry is expected to rise ~5%. But consider now that colleges are seeing engineering graduates at rates >50% in some places, on average ~20%. The same thing happened and continues to happen to CS grads, except their industry grew like 15%, 3X what engineering areas will. Every asian immigrant and their 20 cousins are coming to the US for engineering, and because they can work for cheap under H1B visas, the american workforce is essentially being "priced out" of our own labor market. We are about to--if not already--reaching a point where we won't "always need more engineers".
