Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
I will just add to the chorus here:<p>* I graduated as a Computer Engineer.<p>* Worked as EE&#x2F;EEE entire career (currently almost 14 years).<p>* Half of my class of EEs and CEs went into other careers immediately after graduation because money was better.<p>* 10 years later my best <i>conservative</i> estimate (based on sampling from friends from my year) is that at least another quarter has left because money.<p>* I have mainly worked in companies that make embedded devices, which is a market that is supposed to be exploding. So I should be getting paid better right? Have always been paid worse than my SE peers even though there&#x27;s x5 - x10 as many of them.<p>* Know lots of SEs who moved from EE because money was better (chief complaint from them is that SE is easier but they don&#x27;t care because job less stressful and again more money).<p>* Have never met an SE moving into EE.<p>* I am now at a junction point in my career where I will either: Leave EE completely and work in something else (probably SE or IT), start my own EE business, consult in compliance of EE products (had one gig for a while and it paid well). Why? because money.<p>And I don&#x27;t want fast cars or huge houses or any of that absurdity (although A house would be nice). Just living comfortably would be nice. Having the salaries of my SE and CS friends would be amazing.<p>To those commenters who say that you need to be bright to be an EE, it is very flattering, but I am obviously not very bright :D<p>(edit: formatting because, again, not very bright :) )