Math, science jobs rank as some of the best positions in 2010

WS crooks invested in China and jobs went there. Governments helped them. Also crooks. Robbed us. China manufactures garbage and we pay full price for that being robbed again.

From the amount of comments blaming their joblessness on "right wing wackos" I am going to draw the not so scientific conclusion that only Leftist are without jobs making this all a conspiracy against them... Keep shoveling it buddies!

The federal government apparently doesn't think the future is so bright for a big segment of our biz. The BLS put out a report the other day that semis will be the 2nd biggest loser of jobs in the US. EDN just reported it today. Whenever I hear that the US's future is bright I want to barf. What a load of garbage. The US's best days were past several decades ago. I'm not that old but even I saw that US tech prowess hit a peak in 1969 when Armstrong stepped on the moon. The US is a has been. All that gets any attention is excessive military spending, right wing whackos and endless payments to the medical-industrial complex. And our "wise" Supremes now made the law of the land that rich corporations, including foreign ones, can outright buy and sell politicans with no recourse. Put a fork in it, the US is over.

I lost my job in April 09' after "steady" employment since 1979. I have worked in the semiconductor, test equipment and consumer electronics markets as a BSEE. I'm currently trying to get into the solar (PV) market and will hopefully pass NABCEP in March. The job market in northern California is the worst I've seen in 30 years - and I do not see a recovery to this situation on the horizon. I didn't have to tell both of my sons to avoid a career in engineering - they saw what I had to do for 30 years. Stimpy - I feel your pain at 54 years old, I'm too experienced and too expensive for most jobs I've applied for. BTW, I lost my last job to a "change maker" who laid off 23/50 employees (needed the cash for his $500K salary) and then he was axed after less than 9 months in grade. Do you speak Mandarin?

I want to be a Biomedical Engineering! Its so KOOL!

I'm an old engineer just hanging on. HR is abusing me, hoping I'll get a hint and leave on my own so I can be replaced by cheaper youngsters. Meanwhile the corporation continues in full outsource mode. Yeah, what fun. None of us engineers recommend it to our children or grandchildren. What does that say about it as a career boys and girls?

Here in Holland you can get a lot of engineering jobs, it's very hard to find good engineers over here. The only problem is that engineering jobs pay not so well, maybe that's why we have a shortage.

Judgeing from sum of the komments, theese fokes nede too lurn how to right English.

So corporate executive is a bad job? Carly Fiorina did pretty well with the $60 million she got from HP to hit the streets, and was about as effective on the McCain campaign as she was at HP. The execs. make the big bucks and the lackies with math, science and engineering degrees haul the stones up the sides of the pyramids for them. Then it's Layoff Time! There are only 3 jobs for the future: Lawyer, Lobbyist or Right Wingnut Ranting Talk Show Host (Rush makes $38 million a year from Clear Channel). You can fergit about the rest. The list is a joke, but the H1B visas that are killing wages, job availability the need for a technical education by US citizens are not funny at all.

I have been involved with Aerospace DoD, Communication, Electronic, Software, Medical, Financial, QA/QC, and Utility domains of industry. I am current working as an underpaid engineer for Texas DOT. I am thankful, but finaicially strapped. Trust me, the market has been faltering for a long time. I have two close friends out of work. One has BS in CS and the other extensive electronic/software and ECM Airforce background. This article sounds more like diatribe coming out of Washington. Quit outsourcing, close the borders, and save America.

I agree with my colleagues. I have been looking for a full time job since August 2009. This is not the first time that I get laid off for financial reasons. I have a master in science in Mechanical Engineering. I decided in college to take the 5 years degree to have more job security. However, has been the opposite. I took the FIT to become a Professional Engineer. Unfortunately, my leads, supervisor, and or managers have been Marketing People, and people with short career degrees from a non-accredited US University. I feel that Companies want somebody to do a specific job. An probably that is the reason of the proliferation of so many certification and Technical Colleges. At the moment I am consulting and doing volunteering work.

I agree with the people in this blog. I've been looking for a full time job since January 2008. In the meantime, what I've doing is tutoring Math & Science part time. Recently, I decided to go back to school and pursue a MS in Applied Math. I am glad I've just made the right decision.

I think the best aspect of reports like this is that it gives teachers something tangible to show their students that math and science can pay off. I often hear that teachers get the question of "how will this class help me." By answering that it can help them land one of the nation's best-rated jobs one day, that's a pretty good answer.

I have a BA in Math (and kept current) with extensive systems engineering experience with anything ranging from a microcontroller based DAQ to server based daemon monitoring systems. I have been looking for consulting, freelance work since March of last year and my only comment is this: What have you been smoking recently?

I've been out of work since july. The first time I was laid off in 2004, I was mfg test engineer at one company for 8 years. In response tothat I got ms .net training. Surveys showed most jobs at the time were it. After 6 months I completed that program on a grant. I worked hard to combine my hw test engineering with ms .net. since that time I have been contractor for 3 companies where I provided complete test systems from the ground up. And now since july I'm back uneployed again. At interviews I show demos ranging from test equipment remote control to bluetooth and wifi daq using google g1 phone. I'm focusing on my weak areas of database design and t-sql as opposed to flat file approach. I figured that datbase connectivity to test instruments could allow for user configuration variability. Also with my agilent arb func gen I could generate specif noise types(math models) and inject into baseband signal streams. I remember I really enjoyed differential equations and applying it to feedback control system design for my bseet in 94. In any case I take it one day at a time. Anybody have jobs in puget sound region of washington state? Have a good day folks.