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the best advice is to be able in the
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last year or so of your degree to see
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what is hot right then and take a couple
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of courses in that field if you can get
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them the problem with timing the labor
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market is that if I am going to start
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college right now it'll be four years
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before I graduate what is hot in four
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years is unlikely to be hot right now so
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the classic story of this is that a few
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years ago the hot job in the US for kids
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graduating was petroleum engineers and
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then it completely cratered when oil
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prices sunk then oil prices rise back up
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Suddenly It's a hot thing again then it
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craters and it could be you strike it
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lucky but part of the problem is that so
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many kids go into those fields when
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they're freshman because they see what
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the job market is like then and then
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they kind of oversupply it
