Getting a good job

That's funny, cause here we see the primary skill of a PhD as taking an impossible task and managing to get two monkeys and an engineer who should never have been given a degree to complete it on time, on budget, and without additional assistance. We also expect that a PhD should be able to perform any task that might require a mechanical, electrical, software or civil engineer, an MBA, economist, lawyer or priest. They better have learned more in that extra 4+ years of school than they did in the 16 previous. Of course, that doesn't mean most engineers should have a PhD (or that they could get one if they wanted one.) It just means that there are problems I can drop in the lap of a typical PhD that would take a week to explain to the typical programmer. It's a different skill set, and should be treated as such. Eric