WSJ: "If you're a high math student in America... it's crazy to go into STEM"

[yagottabelieve]

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To be honest, I would get some experience first, then looked into the cleared world as I think the invasion of private life, some of the rules and the pace/culture of government-related work may be more suited for an experience engineer than that fresh grad who wants to experience more things while having a little more freedom in lifestyle. Still, I wanted to present this as an option if some engineers want to look into it.

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<p>A few years ago, I had a discussion on this subject with an MIT grad from the 1980s who holds a similar US government engineering job and another, much more recent MIT grad. The general consensus was that the US government engineering work wasn’t particularly attractive to younger people with STEM backgrounds who could get jobs at places like Apple or Facebook (or wanted to). Issues of concern: are the companies LGBT-friendly? how much freedom to innovate do you have? to what extent can you share your work with others?</p>