Andrew*, a Washington University engineering student, was moving all too quickly through his senior year in 2022. He was painfully aware that soon he’d need a job. So he did the same thing as many of his classmates at the McKelvey School of Engineering: he signed on at Boeing. After a quick recruiting process — he didn’t have to leave campus to be interviewed — he was offered a job as a Quality Engineer, working in Boeing’s Berkeley plant, out in the North County suburbs in the shadow of Lambert St. Louis International Airport.
As an engineer, I’m not really an activist or anything, but I’ll be living under a bridge before I accept a job at a “defense” company that makes weapons, of which there seem to be many these days. And yes, I have this statement (with slightly different wording) as a note to recruiters in my linkedin profile.
Good to know I’m not the only one taking a stance on this.