{"id":197035,"date":"2008-03-06T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/06\/another-gloom-and-doom-article-about-an-aerospace-brain-drain\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:25:00","slug":"another-gloom-and-doom-article-about-an-aerospace-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/06\/another-gloom-and-doom-article-about-an-aerospace-brain-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Gloom and Doom Article About an Aerospace Brain Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/latestheadlines\/ci_8449748?nclick_check=1\">They are wringing their hands because all these people will be retiring over the next few years<\/a>, and there is no one in the wings to replace them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because the course of study is hard, the pay is not great, particularly once one gets past the 5 or 10 year mark, and at the slightest whiff of a downturn, you get laid off.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that what once took 6 months (the P-80 shooting star), now takes 18 years or so (F-22), either.<\/p>\n<p>These folks can do numbers, they know that they will be poorly paid, won&#8217;t have a secretary, and half-way through their careers, they may be asking, &#8220;Would you like fries with that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t go into the field because it is an underpaid unattractive field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are wringing their hands because all these people will be retiring over the next few years, and there is no one in the wings to replace them. It&#8217;s because the course of study is hard, the pay is not great, particularly once one gets past the 5 or 10 year mark, and at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,975,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-employment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}