Reply #13: Depends on what engineering [View All]

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Plenty of engineering fields don't get outsourced, especially civil engineering (roads, buildings, bridges, etc.) Environmental engineering goes along with that as well, along with electrical engineering (provided you work on the power supply side of things).

The problem is that these jobs aren't sexy like computer engineering or software engineering. I see far too many jumping into that field because they like computers and think that they will be programming video games the day they graduate college, or can start up the next great computer company from their garage. It ain't happening.

If that's what really interests you, go for it. There is always demand out there for those jobs. But those that pick that field because it sounds easy, writing code and working on hardware, need to re-evaluate what they want to do and what is going to turn out best for them later.