Some thoughts on foreign graduate student citizenship

[johnd83]

8. Math is tricky

It really depends what area of math you studied. With economics you end up competing against all the MBAs and that is a completely different can of worms. My parents both have PhDs in math and didn't get that far. They both taught for a while, but my dad ended up working as a computer programmer (this was before there were separate computer science programs). My math major friends have all done OK recently. You may be running into age discrimination at this point rather than lack of engineering jobs. (I don't know how old you are but you claim to have been working in 1986.) It is something that is not isolated to engineering.

I don't know about the glut of ROTC engineers. Defense contractors recruit very heavily in mu university and I have a lot of friends working for them.

To be fair, my biomed-engieering friends can't find jobs. Not all areas are always going to be in demand. That being said, most of my friends have found decent work.