Appendix K

AutoCAD Employment

AutoCAD students vary widely in their backgrounds. Some are already in mid-career and are registered architects or engineers looking to pick up new skills. Others are recent college graduates entering the job market with architecture or engineering degrees. These students need AutoCAD as a small part of their job, or maybe even the main part of their job, but are ultimately hired for their engineering or design knowledge and may draft in only the first few years of their career as they learn the ropes.

Another very large group of students, however, are attracted to CAD drafting in and of itself and attend one of the many programs at local community colleges or tech/vocational schools that ultimately lead to a certificate ...

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