[EricH]

Originally Posted by ScottM

"Engineers and scientists will never earn as much as business executives and sales people."

Yeah, but they're helpless without us. Something about having to have something to sell...

There are several shirts at my college poking fun at our archrival, which happens to be a liberal arts school. (SDSMT is engineering and science almost exclusively--the exceptions are general ed classes.) One of them gives the score of the last football game (we won by one point) and the starting salaries. Ours? The shirt gives the minimum. Theirs? The shirt gives the maximum, which is about half of our minimum...

The other thing is that engineers don't need a bailout to survive, they'll just invent something new and make money anyway.