What paying customers really want

[edkyle99]

rpspeck - 3/5/2007  5:37 PM

Since these facts are not secret, it is no surprise that students shun “Aerospace” careers.  
Experience in Aerospace and Military work is a blot on your resume: it marks you as not being smart enough to be hired for video game work.  (“Rocket Science”, as a description, has two implications: Esoteric and incomprehensible, plus irrelevant, Nobody Cares.)

If students shun aerospace, it is because they can make more money elsewhere.  And good for them if that is the path they choose.  But as a former "aerospace" employee myself, I have to loudly disagree with your assertion that experience in "aerospace and military work" is a "blot on your resume".  I would hire one of those blotted resume holders every time ahead of a "video game developer".  

 - Ed Kyle

[rpspeck]

Good for You!  I would probably do that also, since I work in the real world, on multidisciplinary challenges and aerospace is good preparation for those.  Yet I see what I have described in many companies.  

I also believe this situation will change when more than a few have experience with SpaceShipOne type programs!