Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional
by cma on Sunday May 17, 2009 @07:57PM
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The 10% decline was in "Engineering and architecture occupations," it would be nice if the two were separated out. We had a massive housing bubble and construction boom. It popped. In light of that it is hardly surprising that Architects had a major fall off.
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Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional
by myth_drannon on Sunday May 17, 2009 @08:03PM
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"‘Engineering and architecture occupations’ (actually the BLS reverses the order) is roughly 67% engineers, about 10% architects, surveyors and the like, with the remainder engineering and mapping technicians"
So the majority of 10% decline are engineers.
no offense, but that makes no sense whatsoever
It makes perfect sense, if the entire decline was in architects then there would be 0 architects left.
Though I'm a mechanical engineer and my company hasn't really been affected, and my brother is an architect and his company has shrunk from 15 to 3. So I imagine the OP is right that a large chunk of the decline is from architecture/construction related jobs, but certainly not all.
i agree that the entire decline couldn't have been in architects, but remain mystified as to how (someone would conclude) this implies the _majority_ wasn't in architects
He meant 67% of the 10% decline represented engineers, whereas 33% represented non-engineers.
Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional
by steveplace on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:45PM
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Also separate engineers. Civil and construction engineers were poleaxed since the bust.
Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional
by tokenadult on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:41PM
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The 10% decline was in "Engineering and architecture occupations," it would be nice if the two were separated out.
Good catch, and your comment on the housing bubble seems apropos.