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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](1) Finance;
(2) Pre med -- ONLY if the kid will actually go to med school and not change his mind bc bio majors are a dime a dozen.
(3) STEM ONLY if you're doing computer science or bio engineering. I'm sorry but having grown up in a mechicanl engineering household w/ lots of civil/structural engineering friends -- that work is REALLY easy to outsource to other countries with top math skills even if they don't speak the language; somehow those on the stem bandwagon don't get this.[/quote]

Finance -- which was my own major back in the day; lots of utility across industries, you can go get an MBA or JD or not etc.[/quote]I agree with (2) but (3) doesn't make any sense.  It's not easier to outsource civil engineering work than computer science.  [/quote]

Didn't explain it fully. Yes -- you can outsource CS just like you can outsource civil or mechanical. Thing is right now there is HUGE demand for CS/IT, so there are a huge number of jobs for it in the U.S. As time goes on companies will realize they are spending more and more on CS/IT issues and will look to do it on the cheap -- meaning send that  work to companies that are using consultants in way cheaper places where you can pay an engineer 30k instead of 70k right out of college. And then the CS outsourcing will begin. To those who think it isn't possible -- it's exactly what happened in mech/civil -- HUGE demand in the US in the 70s-80s, to where you could get a visa to come live in the U.S. easily if you had those degrees bc there weren't enough qualified American engineers. Then over time it became clear that if you send the work to cheaper countries, you don't have to pay nearly as much.

For STEM -- I think bio engineering holds the least threat of outsourcing. It takes remarkable "creativity" to be able to come up with new treatments and devices and other countries rival/top us in teaching math and science, they also pride themselves on a more "rote" education so the creative developments don't happen in those countries in the same way.[/quote]

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