Yeah. Nobody here is surprised by that. In fact, he may be getting his hubris by reading our posts here. :-)
Six years ago a guy at my church was laid off from a VERY long term engineering job. After a year of searching for work, his daughter (a checker at Safeway) said to me, “Good news! My dad got a job! He’s working at Lowes. I make more than my dad now, hahaha!”
That was when what this guy is saying hit me.
Not long ago there were regular posts on FR saying that anyone who had an engineering degree had no problem finding work. Seems that has changed recently.