I'm 42. I've lived long enough to see mining engineers unemployed (they're hot now); aeronautics engineers working as tourist guides; a scientist who helped somebody win a Nobel prize working odd jobs; doctors doing menial work http://www.adtoa.org/index.pl?page=468 , and post-dotcom engineers who moved back in with their parents.
Do not for any moment think that a hard technical field is necessarily superior. What we study and how we fare is actually an adaptive feature. Just as natural selection isn't about survival of the fittest, rather survival of the best adapted; whether some one is employed or not is a not function of whether they studied "hard" skills or not, but rather whether their skills are adapted to present economic conditions.
Unfortunately, the economy is fickle. Enjoy your time in the sun, and I hope it lasts long.
Do not for any moment think that a hard technical field is necessarily superior. What we study and how we fare is actually an adaptive feature. Just as natural selection isn't about survival of the fittest, rather survival of the best adapted; whether some one is employed or not is a not function of whether they studied "hard" skills or not, but rather whether their skills are adapted to present economic conditions.
Unfortunately, the economy is fickle. Enjoy your time in the sun, and I hope it lasts long.