[Axenolith]

I work with people who have engineering degrees that couldn’t tell a cardinal direction standing outside...

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[Snowybear]

> I work with people who have engineering degrees that couldn’t tell a cardinal direction standing outside...

I’ve worked with people like that. I’m a software engineer focused on testing. These people will not survive a SHTF situation. Not even a natural disaster.

-SB

[OldWarBaby]

There’s a lot of stuff missing from current engineering schools. They started “simplifying” back in the 70’s. I’ve watched it happen over the last six decades and it just bites my bleepingbutt.

Funny story-—sort of: Our local community college had a decent foundry program up thru the 80’s. That’s what their charter says they’re supposed to do, industrial arts, etc. Sometime in the 90’s the top floor geniuses figgered the program just wasn’t needed so they pulled out all the equipment and auctioned it off. When I mention that old program the neeners tend to dis-believe there was one. So I wave at the back room where all that gear is now. I bought it all. Safe from the morons.

And, oh, by the way: The US Navy still owes me big time for the problems I kept from happening, decades ago, because of my foundry skill set.