One of our readers responded to our April Newsletter titled "Our Youngest Engineers Tell Us What's 'Next.'" We are happy to present these comments:


Our generation keeps being blamed for that "entitlement" regarding our careers but I think the problem is that we now need to prepare ourselves more than the other generations.  I got out of college a yr ago with a degree in Business Management, another one in Civil Engineering and I am prominent in AutoCAD, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Project.....not to mention I am fluent in english and spanish....but when looking for a job companies still offer us salaries as if we didn't go to school and expect us to work 10+ hour days.  I don't think "entitlement" is the problem, I think is those companies who don't know the importance of their human resources what carries the real problem.  Getting an engineering degree is not easy, and therefore we deserve to be paid accordingly.


You can read the April newsletter by following this link: 
http://www.highroadsolution.com/clients/civil/newsletter1/web_pages/2008/5_civil_apri.htm

Obviously, the poster is proud to have obtained his engineering degree. It is an accomplishment by any standard.  It is probably his/her greatest accomplishment in life to date.  And that, exactly, is the missed point.  S/he has not even scratched the surface of what is expected of them in life.  Their true accomplishments are yet to come, and then they will get paid.