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Engineering is a crappy profession. It's been ruined by changes to the modern business envionment.
An engineer is considered a wasteful expense by upper management, so we are given the work of 5 to 10 people to "earn" our pathetic salary. Many companies such as General Motors and Boeing pay their janitors more than they pay their engineers, and the engineers work their ass off and don't get paid over time.
We are also expected to be accountants, salesmen, program managers, supervisors , purchasers, customer service punching bags, supplier development whip-crackers, and part-time manufacturing hands.
By the way , we also spend half of our time going to China, training people who don't even speak our language, how to do our job so that they can replace us soon. Ditto for Mexico.
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