Colorado Technical University

Is it unwise to become an engineer now-a-days because of outsourcing?

Instead here's an alternative scenario for the American worker. Start your own business. Then your job cannot be outsourced. Why leave your fate up to corporations who have no loyalty to workers but will seek the cheapest labor wherever they can find it in the world? Become a capitalist yourself! Train yourself for a line of work over which you have complete control, and a line of work that can't be outsourced. Examples: medicine, law, plumbing, electrician, handyman, barber and beauty shops, franchises such as Starbucks, real estate. Whatever you do, don't go into high tech, cutting edge fields. These are the primary candidates for outsourcing. Take the money you would have spent on college and instead invest it in real estate. Your goal should be not to just be a worker living from paycheck to paycheck with the American dream of a mortgage and a couple of cars. Your goal should be to increase your net assets, your net worth, to the point that you can live off of a return from capital and not just the sweat of your brow. This is what they don't teach you in school where they teach the new American Dream which Friedman totally endorses which is to get better educated, work harder and run faster in the rat race. A moderately successful business man (and I include handymen, gardeners and plumbers in this category) doesn't have to do this. More importantly, a moderately successful businessman does not have to beg a corporation for a job. http://willblogforfood.typepad.com/will_blog_for_food/education_careers_jobs_employment/

Public Comments

1. Engineering can never go out of demand.............besides the economy is slowly turning around now
2. First to your question .... It is never unwise to become an engineer .... there are many discipline's to choose from .... now to your statement which plays into the additional part of the answer .... do what best suites your individual personality and that which you love to do and passionate about. But before you decide learn everything there is to know about what you want to do .... ask people in that field or endeavor what they think.
3. There's no line of work where you are in "complete control". Most independent businessmen go broke or eke out miserably small salaries. Advice to go into real estate a couple of years ago would lead to bankruptcy today.