Originally Posted by mithawk
I don't know if it's gone, but it has changed. We just filled a junior engineering position in my company. What I saw was tremendous wage compression. The best grads out of college were touching six figures, and many highly qualified candidates with 10 years of experience were making about the same amount.

That's one of the reasons I bailed on engineering and went into law, so there were indicators of it there in the mid-1990's.

I was also concerned about the "industrial scrapheap".

Naturally, I missed the "lawyer scrapheap", which appears to be worse.

In any event, I console myself that I am, at least, not inhaling industrial fumes.