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You're hired! Engineering jobs appear to be coming back, but not everyone's convinced.(Paul Porter management in Nortel Networks )
Design News, July, 2005 by Costlow, Terry
In the depths of the tech wreck years, Paul Porter was so dismayed by the cutbacks of his co-workers at troubled Nortel Networks that he decided to leave the field. Hiring in electronics is now picking up, but that hasn't prompted Porter to change his mind.
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After telling Design News early in 2003 that he had "spent seven years in school for a six-year career," the MSEE graduate gave engineering another shot. He picked up a job "training a team in India to write wireless telecom test scripts for GSM, which was the technical foundation of my career." But that was so unmotivating that he quit to start law school.
Now a year from earning a law degree that will bring "a starting salary 80 percent above what I made in...
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