pipe stress outlook

[mechmama]

I've seen several stress guys post on this forum, and wondered what your opinions of a career in pipe stress. I'm in power, not process, so it might not be as lucrative of a choice as for some of you Houston folks, but I'd just like some general opinions.

I had 3 years experience in stress straight out of college. I've been doing something else for a year and a half, but I'm considering going back to stress now.

Do you think stress has a decent long-term outlook (ie will companies care to keep experts around, or will the trend follow my current company and put new grads in it for a year, then "promote" them out of it)?

 

[electricpete]

Sounds too stressful to me

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[rb1957]

one year's experience i stress will teach you one of the following ...
"this looks really interesting"
"I know nothing, and this looks too difficult"
"this is so incredibly boring i'll retire now to a sanitarium"
"i know everything, so let's more on"

three are, IMHO, reasonable, and one is unreasonable ! (pick which) unfortunately I think too many pick this one !!

a company rotates new grads through stress is doomed to repeat previous designs (and analysis) without any real understanding ('cause all anyone does is look over previous reports and copies them) and without any growth/improvement in the designs. Again, IMHO this is brought on by a company culture that thinks that stress is done by a monkey pushing buttons on a PC (probably hasn't had a strcutural failure in a while and is probably headed by non-structural types (electrical, HVAC, MBAs).