quick35th said:
Shane I feel for all you young people today, but I honestly do not know of 1 single profession today that is safe. I can also understand why so many young people today have no hope for there future and are lashing out in various destructive ways, I do'nt condone there destructive behaviour but I do understand it. Do not give up on your dream! But instead think about modifying your expectations of what that career might actualy be like and what will be expected of you in order to have that career. Andy is correct because you just might have to live in China in order to have that career. you may just end up being in a group of engineers that continiously travel the globe to the various plants owned by a corp. After all Tom Scarpello the now ex head of Fords SVT department was just sent to England to work at Jaguar and he really did'nt know that was coming.
Dr's and Lawyers in this country are not even safe. They do not realize it yet but the NAFTA agreement has provisions in it which allow any Dr or Lawyer from another country to use Mexico as a door to walk into the US and set up shop. The real kicker to that provision is that it allows them to do so without passing any AMA medical exams and licenceing and the lawyers do not have to pass the Barr exames nor get a licence to practice in the US. Scarey times are a com'in, just do your best to be as prepaired as you can.
Chevy has begun engineering one line of engines that will be imported to the US this year for installation in one of there SUV's that they sell here in the US. Hmmm boy...dont you know thats gonna be a winner of an engine!
Those Korean engineers I spoke of earlier. I somewhat befriended them so that I could learn more about them and what they were doing and to hopefully help things out on the job, so I was invited to there motel by the head engineer(who was the only one that could speak any english) to just set around and get to know each other alittle better. I arrived at there motel and was shocked to learn that all 8 of them were living in 1 room with 2 double beds and cooking all there meals on hotplates and a microwave. They were all friendly guys and pleasant to be around and all took turns talking to me through the head engineer who was acting as our interputer. Each one told me about how happy they were to get to come to the US and work because they were making more money here than they ever had in there lives back home. The highest paid one there was the head guy and he was making $8.50 per hour, but they were just exstatic that the co. was paying there rent at the motel and buying there grocery's for them as well as doing there laundry at the plant with the plants work uniforms. They just could not believe that a co. would do that for them as well as pay them such high wages. They told me that the engineering firm they worked for back home was sending there pay to there families and they never actualy saw there paychecks.
Driving home that evening I almost broke down crying thinking to myself "My God, Whats this country coming to?" I still do not have the full answer to that qeustion.
