Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
I moved into IT from "formal" engineering and its always frustrated me that a job that involves working on extremely expensive engines using upper level college math gets paid almost nothing compared to people who change colors on a webpage every once in a while. I've been on floors where multi-million dollar pieces of equipment are used to produce parts with obscene levels of precision being used by expert machinists making 80k a year who risk their own personal safety making these parts.I have EE friends with master degrees who design PCBs that are printed millions of times that struggle to afford rent.It makes no sense. Why is web software so easy to make money in? Why do we value hard engineering so little?