Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
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What are the current rates of unemployment in our industry. I read numbers upto 27%, which seem too high. Is our U.E %age identical to the genearl U.E in the country?
When I was finishing grade school back a few years back one of my professors, with decades of background of DOT work, mentioned that civil engg never has huge ups and downs in employment. I guess he was wrong.
When I was finishing grade school back a few years back one of my professors, with decades of background of DOT work, mentioned that civil engg never has huge ups and downs in employment. I guess he was wrong.
Kaiser






RE: Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
RE: Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
Kind of gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
RE: Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
Personally, I am not surprised by that figure at all.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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RE: Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
RE: Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
Structural Design Engineer
New York, NY
RE: Civil/Structural Engg unemployment rates
My impression from talking to numerous other engineers is the following:
1) When business was booming a few years ago, everyone was working lots and lots of overtime. Either that or the jobs would be delayed for awhile because there were not enough engineers to get the jobs done. Guys who should have been retired would come back to work for a few years just because the companies they used to work for were so desperate for some extra help.
2) Now, it's more of a case of people being under-employed rather than unemployed. The guys that used to be retired, went back to being retired full time. Some folks are getting by with other non-structural work (project managment, civil, et cetera). Many companies (and government offices) have cut the number of hours their employees are working.
My main point is that the unemployment rate (as CVG suggests) may not tell the whole story. There has been a dramatic slow down in the industry... even if unemployment rates don't look too bad.
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When the individual asked the CEO why, he said they are smarter....
I took major offense to this. I believe it has much more to do with the fact foreign engineer(not all) will work for half the pay with twice the experience of an american engineer.
These a** hats get big subsidize from the federal government, something like 20 billion a year! And then they hire foreigners .... And the president gets on tv and says there is a shortage of american engineers, as they hand 20k foreign engineer visas, while 20% of us are unemployed.
I am trying to stay positive, but this is ridicules. My neighbor installs internet for the cable company and make 65k stress free. I am starting to think i need a new line of work.
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Structural Design Engineer
New York, NY
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Didn't mean to to offend you. The show I mentioned, was the night before and it was still resonating with me.
And when I said "foreign engineers" I was inferring to those from countries with much lower GDP then USA, and thus would take a very low salary comparatively to there experience.
My point was American companies are recovering from the economy, but are only hiring small percentages of american engineers, using billions of american tax dollars in subsidize.