[Porsche-O-Phile]

Come to SoCal. If you can't land a job within a week you either have lung-choking B.O. or a third eye or something.

That's the biggest reason I stay in this hell-hole - the fact that there's NEVER a shortage of demand for good/decent people.

Ask me about the "Oregon story" sometime. Long story short when we used to live up there, my wife actively looked for a new job for over four months in Portland, Oregon after being laid off. No luck. All she got was three or four interviews and one offer to work as a cashier for about eight bucks an hour. We got the hell out of there before we totally ended up bankrupt and she had a job down here within a week. This was in the 2002, post-9/11 recession.

Yes, SoCal is a hell-hole and has its share of problems, but finding work isn't one of them. I suggest coming out here, landing a job, putting up with the crap out here for 2-3 years to build your experience and pursue your EIT/PE and then you can move out of this schit-pit and take that resume anywhere.

Just my $0.02.

Unfortunately I didn't follow my own advice and ended up staying, but whatever. You can do that too if you like.