<VV> RE: Interesting Article ...NOW Engineer (no Corvair)

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

We here at NASA Langley are facing massive RIF's (reduction in force) in the near future.  I've been in constant fear of losing my job almost this entire year and next should be worse.  Did the gentleman from NASA mention THAT to the children?  If you want to inspire kids to be engineers don't show them models of the shuttle (which in spite of how much I admire it is NOT the best idea to ever come out of NASA) but instead show them they'll have some kind of job security.  Who wants a job where you're constantly afraid you're going to lose it?  Become a lawyer, they're always busy.

mike

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Took my kids to the Marshfield Days (Marshfield Missouri) last weekend, NASA
was there with a scaled model of the shuttle and lots of other interesting
things.  While I was talking to the gentleman from NASA he mentioned that
the main reason that they do this is to inspire kids to take math and
science.  They are having a hard time getting Engineers and Scientist these
days.  They picked going to Marshfield because it is the birth place of
Edwin P. Hubble.

Keith Hammett
M.E. University of Missouri - Rolla 2000

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