| |>I have a 4 year E.E. degree, 20 years+ experience, and have been |> out of work for almost 4 years (in the state with the highest unemployment |> rate in the country, ironically a "blue" state)...I'm in process of |> changing |> fields to financial sales. | | What is your field of expertise? We have trouble getting qualified | engineers because they all have multiple offers. The power industry is | starting to come back around and will likely experience a surge in new hires | in the next 5 years as the older engineers retire. I know of several large | utilities that are planning large increases in their capital expenditures | over the next decade to make up for nearly 2 decades of "getting by". | | Charles Perry P.E.
I hope those capital expenditures aren't be sidetracked and siphoned down the bottomless pit called BPL. The money would be better spent making things more reliable and growing the capacity we will need in the next few decades. But if they still really want to play the "me too" game of information (internet) services, they really should put fiber in the right of ways they now have, instead of trying to use a technology that is going to be persistently problematic, and can't grow to the 400 mbps level I suspect will be the settling point for consumer internet access.
I'd be willing to work for a power utility managing their internet services if (and only if) they are NOT using BPL.
BTW...
Two friends of my nephew (ages around 15) were asking about what to fields to go into in college. That had expressed interest in computers. But I suggested they could make more money going into engineering, particularly power engineer in EE. One of them actually seemed to be interested in it (after I told him a little about how generators worked).