[nightdriver]

"Once you hit 50, nobody will hire you as an engineer."

'Fraid you're more right than wrong. Not only won't they hire you, they won't even bother to reply with a decent "get screwed" letter.

[snopercod]

I sent out sixty resumes for engineering jobs last year, and only got ONE rejection note or e-mail. The rest didn't waste a stamp.

I gave up on engineering and am working as an architectural designer now, basically doing stuff I learned in high school drafting. My career has gone full circle.