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Message: <blockquote data-quote="perterra" data-source="post: 3170198" data-attributes="member: 103709">I know several engineers who had to take very low paying jobs because they couldnt find work in their field. Seems for engineering design, the job can be farmed out to China or India much cheaper than done in house, and for field engineers companies can bring in an engineer on an H1B visa and those guys will work for about a third of what locals work for. And for the most part they are meek and mild, if they start complaining about low pay, the company just sends them back to where ever they got them from.I'm not sure they refuse to chip a nail as much as we teach them from an early age that if they wish to be anything other than a white collar professional they will be a loser. I did a little stuff with the American Welding Society in regards to high school career counselors. For the most part the only people that get directed to the trades are the ones who they think will drop out or who are unable to make it in higher education. The most common job in America right now is a truck driver, yet more people are in college than ever before. Companies say they cant find an educated work force in the US, so they move production to Mexico, China and India. So I am more inclined to blame the culture we have raised our youth in, than the youth theirself.Sorry for getting off topic</blockquote>