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85 percent of youth say they are not interested in a future engineering career, yet we’ll be short 70,000 engineers by 2010

How old is too old to retrain as an engineer? Accounting is okay, but I'd rather be doing something where I can actually see end results that aren't just on paper.

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You are never too old. BUT, I’m an American engineer who has been looking for a job for over two years, while companies in my area are begging Washington to drastically increase the number of H1-Bs because they say they can’t find enough Americans to work. Uh huh...