This is an issue in a lot of technical areas. In the branch of engineering
that I am in, there are plenty of people in it but lots that shouldn't be. So
hiring people is easy, but hiring qualified people is hard. The problem we
face as a firm is that there are a lot of other firms out there that hire warm
bodies and turn out crappy product, but we still have to compete with them. I
wish the requirements to get into the profession were harder. It wouldn't
matter to the people that are qualified but might keep out some of the
unqualified people, and the end result would benefit society as a whole.
> Much luck, Amigo. Locally I teach occasional courses in engineering physics
> and calculus.. I'm luck to get 5 students per semester in the community
> college and frequently have to fend off irate parents who think I am making
> to too hard on their babies. I'd say 1 or 2 of these kids a year have the
> drive and knowledge to make it in any form of real engineering! American
> education is badly broken. My last 5 4.0 students were Asian.
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