As long as you aren't in California anyway.

 

i have a technical degree (cs+math) and was in manufacturing before. now i'm in finance. i like it a lot, and it beats the crap out of manufacturing.

 

always good to work for government. doesn't matter what you're studying.

 

whatever field, try to be a consultant, $$/travel/flexible

 

I'd say get into a company that caters to multiple industries. I'm in manufacturing; before our company was bought out we contracted IT work. The company we used had a contract with the New Orleans Saints or the Superdome...I don't remember anymore. There are probably a few industries that you should avoid, but none I'd think you should single out.

 

lets all keep in mind that the economy is in the shitter

get a job with a company that appears to be *stable* in this mess, so you don't just get let go 3 months after you're hired. that should be your #1 priority.

gov jobs will suck the life out of you and make you want to kill yourself, but they sure are stable. put in your 30 years and retire comfortably, never do a hard days work in the mess... there are worse ways to live. still highly doubt you'd be able to get a gov job tho.. they don't usually have a lot of 'straight out of college' openings from what I remember.

For DFWs2k's suggestion, no offense man, but I have to completely disagree. Consulting is one of the first line-items people cut in tough economic times, especially in IT. That big project they had wanted to do, upgrading to a new web-based application or whatever...? Sorry, no budget. My former company was consulting, they've let go quite a lot of people in the last year.

 

lol... it took me a second to get that.

 

I'm in healthcare and have been for the past five years or so. It's pretty stable right now, but it's not the only option. A lot of exciting stuff going on with clinics and hospitals implementing electronic medical records systems and going digital on x-ray and other labs.

 

I'm in the consulting group of one of the major financial companies, and my group is the only group that is still profitable/growing, but if you are strictly tech, then yea, I have known quite a few people get laid off, however in my group we have our tech people and they are going to continue to have great job security.

I wasn't talking about contract work.

 

We're always looking for IT folks in the animation industry....check there.