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What kinds of skills are good for women...BESIDES nursing? I'm not being sarcastic, but some of these seem like heavily male-dominated fields.
If you're good with your hands and have good hand-eye coordination: electrical engineering HVAC technician.
Yesterday I read about the low number of women in science and mathematics. Some of the theories about this is that it doesn't work well with women trying to start families. I would suggest more scientific and mathematical communities try to recruit child free women and possibly try to work with women who want to become mothers and give them flex-time and maybe some paid maternity leave (after x amount of years of work, of course). At the same time, I would see how it would be hard to be a mother and a scientist. Once you're gone delivering your baby, you're already behind on a certain project.
In any case,even if there are fields that are heavily male dominated, it doesn't mean that women can't do the work.
Get your PM certificate (PMP ?). Last I heard employers highly regard it...
Yes, PMP certification is a big plus. As more and more projects become outsourced to different companies (even within the US), the need for someone with PMP certification is greater than ever.
Project Management can be a really difficult job though; I don't envy those folks. Long hours and lots of stress.
I remember the 1970s recession, and plenty of over-educated liberal arts people and other degrees driving taxis, etc. It seems to me that, at least around Boston, a whole lot of them ended up in software. Back then, the only degree that was applicable was mostly electrical engineering, and there weren't that many of them. I imagine it's a whole lot harder now to break in without concrete experience/training.
Of course, there have always been a lot of over-educated people who are driving taxis around Boston... now they're all from Africa. Really.
I'm in the same boat. I'm graduating in June with an AVIATION (Totally useless!) degree, and the only jobs I can find are minimum wage, $8.00/hr jobs. I've searched everywhere - job sites, trade magazines, school career services, friends and family - NOTHING! I want to go into airport management but I'll take anything in Michigan at this point. I really don't want to move.
I realize this is an old thread and you'll likely never see this, but if you're unwilling to move around to find a job in aviation, you really didn't think out your degree/future too well. Don't ge me wrong: I understand passion for aviation. I too am deep into the aviation field and hold a BS/MS in aviation related degrees. But I knew from the outset that aviation is not one of those careers that you can find a job in any place in any town. Surely you knew this before you embarked on such a degree?
My advice to you would be to expand your horizons and go out and get the experience. You can always move back to MI in the future.
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