A Bad Time to Be A Professional
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A Bad Time to Be A Professional
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#2 Yikes! These numbers are scary. A 10% decline in
engineering occupations in just 8 months?
Re: A Bad Time to Be A Professional
#3Yikes! These numbers are scary. A 10% decline in engineering occupations in just 8 months? The 10% decline was in "Engineering and architecture occupations," it would be nice if the two were separated out. We had a massive housing bubble and construction boom. It popped. In light of that it is hardly surprising that Architects had a major fall off.
"‘Engineering and architecture occupations’ (actually the BLS reverses the order) is roughly 67% engineers, about 10% architects, surveyors and the like, with the remainder engineering and mapping technicians"
So the majority of 10% decline are engineers.
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#4Yikes! These numbers are scary. A 10% decline in engineering occupations in just 8 months? The 10% decline was in "Engineering and architecture occupations," it would be nice if the two were separated out. We had a massive housing bubble and construction boom. It popped. In light of that it is hardly surprising that Architects had a major fall off.
I agree. It would be nice if the two were separated.
Re: A Bad Time to Be A Professional
#5Yikes! These numbers are scary. A 10% decline in engineering occupations in just 8 months? The 10% decline was in "Engineering and architecture occupations," it would be nice if the two were separated out. We had a massive housing bubble and construction boom. It popped. In light of that it is hardly surprising that Architects had a major fall off.
"‘Engineering and architecture occupations’ (actually the BLS reverses the order) is roughly 67% engineers, about 10% architects, surveyors and the like, with the remainder engineering and mapping technicians" So the majority of 10% decline are engineers.
no offense, but that makes no sense whatsoever
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
"‘Engineering and architecture occupations’ (actually the BLS reverses the order) is roughly 67% engineers, about 10% architects, surveyors and the like, with the remainder engineering and mapping technicians" So the majority of 10% decline are engineers.
no offense, but that makes no sense whatsoever
He meant 67% of the 10% decline represented engineers, whereas 33% represented non-engineers.
Re: A Bad Time to Be A Professional
#7All the evidence available to me suggests that, however bad things may look for long-term employment in IT and CS, the market for freelance talent is strong --- enough so that we've been left wondering for the past 6 months if our business is countercyclical.
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#8All the evidence available to me suggests that, however bad things may look for long-term employment in IT and CS, the market for freelance talent is strong --- enough so that we've been left wondering for the past 6 months if our business is countercyclical.
The freelance talent market is strong, really?
You have any friends looking for a LAMP hacker?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
"‘Engineering and architecture occupations’ (actually the BLS reverses the order) is roughly 67% engineers, about 10% architects, surveyors and the like, with the remainder engineering and mapping technicians" So the majority of 10% decline are engineers.
no offense, but that makes no sense whatsoever
It makes perfect sense, if the entire decline was in architects then there would be 0 architects left.
Though I'm a mechanical engineer and my company hasn't really been affected, and my brother is an architect and his company has shrunk from 15 to 3. So I imagine the OP is right that a large chunk of the decline is from architecture/construction related jobs, but certainly not all.
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#10Yet we had tremendous trouble hiring a solid developer (Denver/Boulder) a month and a half ago. We had a bunch of applications from the barely qualifieds, but it seems that those with a strong skill-set are still in demand.
Hell, I still get 2 or 3 queries a week from headhunters, and I'm not actively looking.