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NOLA is oil, food, and booze. No tech options unless you're in Chem/Process Engg.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2013/05/23/the-cities... http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2014/04/03/americas-n...
They don't go into details on available jobs but I would speculate that these graduates are working in either in hospitality/food service, which recovered after katrina, or petroleum, which increased dramatically with the expansion of the shale and fracking technologies in the US.