Microprocessors. fighter aircraft. Microbrewed beer. Wine, if the winery hasn't fallen to the curse of Robert Parker's rating system. Bourbon. Sailing yachts. Pretty women. Small towns in the South or New England (if they are not too twee with $500 per night B&B's), skiing in the Rockies - if it survives global warming, nuclear submarines, the US marines (about 3 Generals and the Colonels and down). Good beef. Cheasapeake bay crabs and oysters. In sum, almost anything that is not produced by an organization acquired and organized thorugh leveraged buyouts, downsized and run by a bunch of MBAs trying to figure out how to screw union labor out of their health care benefits. Unforunately the fraction of our world that is exempt from those forces has been dwindling. The Navy was long done for, and I don't know about the army.
Don't jump off a cliff. Since you are an engineer hang around. Maybe once the economy hits rock bottom we will need to make a living producing high quality goods that others want to buy, rather than the old-fashioned way - printing money.