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I find that a bit misleading. Me and my gf both work only 4 days a week (aka not full-time). I’d say it barely makes a difference in our field when we’re tired on Fridays rotting at work or home.

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Full time is often defined as 32 hours per week.

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Oh I see… In the two countries I worked in it was 40, ok then.

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Colloquially it is 40 hours per week but for other purposes its somewhere between 30 and 40. Lot of places the cut off for benefits is 36 hours.

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Underemployment

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Mmhm, my bad, that’s why it’s deleted.

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Dumbass me saw “unemployment” and “underemployment”, and went “huh? un-de-re-mployment? what’s that?? that’s a lot of prefixes”. Turns out it’s just under-employment

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That’s kinda like how “underbed” was for me; like, how do you underb something? Or derb it in the first place, for that matter?

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Un-redeployment. When you put boots on the ground, but it’s not a war

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Under-redeployment. When you don’t put enough boots on the ground and it’s still not a war.

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Why aerospace engineering? Is it because people want more mechanical engineering instead and not something so niche?

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It’s the equivalent of “become a Hollywood superstar” for engineering specialties. Lots of grads chasing relatively few positions in the industry – many will ultimately take positions working in related engineering fields like mechanical or automotive engineering, but at the end of the day the aerospace sector just doesn’t develop enough new products to employ all the grads coming out of school with a degree.

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Damn, at all the engineering conferences I’ve been too there are military contractors all over the place promoting aerospace engineering and wanting more grads to come working for them. Long lines of people waiting to get a chance to work with Raytheon, Lockhead, Northrup, etc.

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Tied to govt contracts. I know lots of ppl that got laid off in 2008. I dk about now.

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Geographic limitations. If your spouse has a good job outside of those areas, then there’s no work for you.

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Boeing fired them all so there is an oversupply of them in the market

Joking, maybe…idk

But space engineering should be booming right now, I’m surprised to see that as well. My specific degree is in aviation fields and I’m surprised it’s not on here. No one I know is using theirs.

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Wouldn’t the engineering for space fall outside of aeronautics? There would be overlap if a craft is meant to enter and exit the atmosphere, but it seems like a trade that would require a large set of disciplines to do properly.

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You’re right, but aerospace engineering is a very broad term, afaik, with many disciplines. Many do overlap between aviation and space flight, but I don’t really know if, hypothetically, a Boeing engineer could go work for spaceX, it would depend on the role I imagine.

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I find it neat that they include Commercial Art and Graphic Design as being separate from Fine Arts majors, and the same for Aerospace Engineering as separate from Liberal Arts or Physics majors.

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