Engineering requires constant upgrading, has at least as far back as the 1960. "The Engineer" published by Time-Life in 1967, has a chapter titled "Education Without End". The 1st page in that chapter shows a Graduate Electronics Engineer sitting beside his undergraduate son in a 1966 MIT transistor theory class. 

If they can't find a job perhaps you need more current training. One of the things I enjoy about server support is that it is constantly changing. If you decide that you don't want to learn new things in IT you have decided that your career is over.

When UVic was creating a Faculty of Engineering there was some talk of focusing on Civil Engineering. Harold Page led the move to make Electrical and Computer engineering a focus instead. Today those are very dynamic fields, while Civil Engineering employment is stagnant.

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