About 3 months ago, I was playing with some of the features available in this blog. I created a poll asking this question: "What are the chances of an agricultural engineer in getting a reasonable job in the Philippines?." I got about 35 responses. Five percent answered very good, 8% answered good, 8% were neutral, 25% answered bad, and, as expected, 51% answered very bad. Not a good news for Philippine Agricultural Engineering job seekers. The question was particular only to the Philippines since I heard that agricultural engineers have better chances in many other countries.
I really could not tell the exact implications of these figures. It truly is not easy to summarily conclude that only agricultural engineers have very low chances of getting a reasonable job in this country. It could be that this really is the situation of the entire Philippine job market and not only to the agricultural engineering profession, that is, very low chances of getting a reasonable job whatever profession or specialty you might have. However, I also got hints that, of all engineering professions in the Philippines, agricultural engineers have the least chances of getting a reasonable job. Based on popular opinions, this is probably true.
I just hope this long-time issue will be addressed and answered during the Philippine Agricultural Engineering Week this coming April 2008.
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