William ChopsWestfield wrote:

> In the realm of college classes I didn't have, I wish there
> had been one or two semesters about MONEY, both from a personal
> (investing) and a business (invest-ee) perspective.  In between
> personal, small business, medium business, venture capital,
> evaluating compensation packages, business internal accounting
> (capital expenditure spending limits and their abuse), signs
> that the company you're working for is going broke, etc, there
> should be plenty that everyone should know at least a little
> bit about...

Exactly. Also a bit about company finances (from the inside) and project
budgets. It seems they don't really know that most do become engineers to
make money with those skills :)  But then, we already established that the
colleges and universities lack on the practical side.

Gerhard

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