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Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional by myth_drannon on Sunday May 17, 2009 @08:03PM (#614094)
"‘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.

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Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional by hc on Sunday May 17, 2009 @08:24PM (#614117)
no offense, but that makes no sense whatsoever
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Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional by krschultz on Sunday May 17, 2009 @08:38PM (#614132)
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.

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Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional by hc on Monday May 18, 2009 @06:39AM (#614722)
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
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Re:A Bad Time to Be A Professional by nkohari on Sunday May 17, 2009 @08:30PM (#614121)
He meant 67% of the 10% decline represented engineers, whereas 33% represented non-engineers.
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