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Very based, if anyone remembers I'm that idiot who posted is resume a week or two ago asking for advice on updating it.

Im moving into controls either for aerospace or materials and I cant wait. Most people here who are denigrating engineering here are half right. Ill break it down a bit:

1. More than half of graduating engineers do not work in engineering. Yes most sectors of engineering are awash with too many grads. It is what it is.

2. Most people should not become engineers, and are not cut out of it. Stick to finance and marketing. In the end, it is all technique, though as someone who doesnt think critically about technology or modern life, you wouldn't recognize parallels between different fields.

3. The war being waged at the moment is who will hold the reigns of "progress". On one hand the direction neoliberal finance and economic interests have been guiding us, on the other technocrats and the STEM community (i.e. silicon valley). I believe I know who the victors will be. This has been going on for a long time, longer than the public knows. Anyone in engineering and science who is unaware of this needs to become aware of whats in motion here, it is not just having fun and building things. You have chosen a side. Read Norbert Weiner and Claude Shannon.

4. Let programming be done by the foreign code monkeys, it all serves the same purpose. Blood for the blood god. It is in fact a trade in most circumstances.

I went a bit off topic here, but the very reason your profession still exists as it does now likely rests upon engineering. Race does not matter in the long run, only efficiency, and it will continuously improve. This is what you asked for.