raptoravatar: wearethe99percent: I am 26 years old. I live with my parents. I have a BS in Aeronautical Engineering. I have over $30K in student loans. ($400/mo.) I make $11/hr at my current job. I have friends who got jobs making: NUCLEAR SUBMARINES GUIDED MISSILES UNMANNED COMBAT AERIAL VEHICLES WEAPONS SYSTEMS MILITARY SOFTWARE/HARDWARE I have a question: If I refuse to work for a defense contractor as an engineer, where can I get a job that doesn’t involve KILLING PEOPLE? I realise I am fortunate enough to have a job, a home, medical coverage, food, a car, and other things. Many aren’t. I also realise that the reason my friends and I are is the same reason many aren’t. I am the 99% against the CORPORATE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. occupywallstreet.org This is basically how I feel, except for replace the bit about not wanting to work for a defense contractor with not wanting to create or work for engines of culture that serve only to anesthetize people into a more pliable grade of meat for the machine.

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wearethe99percent:

I am 26 years old.

I live with my parents. I have a BS in Aeronautical Engineering.

I have over $30K in student loans. ($400/mo.)

I make $11/hr at my current job.

I have friends who got jobs making:

NUCLEAR SUBMARINES

GUIDED MISSILES

UNMANNED COMBAT AERIAL VEHICLES

WEAPONS SYSTEMS

MILITARY SOFTWARE/HARDWARE

I have a question:

If I refuse to work for a defense contractor as an engineer, where can I get a job that doesn’t involve KILLING PEOPLE?

I realise I am fortunate enough to have a job, a home, medical coverage, food, a car, and other things.

Many aren’t.

I also realise that the reason my friends and I are is the same reason many aren’t.

I am the 99%

against the CORPORATE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

occupywallstreet.org

This is basically how I feel, except for replace the bit about not wanting to work for a defense contractor with not wanting to create or work for engines of culture that serve only to anesthetize people into a more pliable grade of meat for the machine.