I could write a similar article “Why I Am No Longer A Power Engineer.”
The utility industry was once run by engineers who built magnificent power plants. After graduating as a mechanical engineer, I got into the industry in the early 70s at the tail end of that era. The industry was slowly taken over by the ultra-green kooks who don’t know the difference between a BTU and a BLM.
Utility executives and managers kneeled before every ultra-green outfit around the world (this was way before kneeling became fashionable). The became committed to “defossilizing” the industry and, if you crossed them, your career was at an end. To get ahead professionally, you had to bow down before them, sing the praises of “renewables” and do penance for having once burned coal in your career.
After 25 years, I could no longer stand the non-stop politicization of the energy industry and got out.
I sure miss the USA where you could just have a career and do your job.
I am also an engineer, although I stopped practicing it years ago.
I still get my alumni magazine. It used to have articles of real engineering achievement. During the 1990s and onward to today, the articles and profiles shifted to PC garbage, climate change, environmentalism, affirmative action, and globalism.
Interesting.
When they’ve got to the infrastructure engineers, I imagine they’ve got to everything.
I have often wondered if there are engineers who could now build what the engineers of the 20’s-60’s once did. I truly doubt it except for those in the nuclear field dealing with all the dangers of that.
The health care industry in which I work is the same way. Accountants and bean counters run it.
It also serves as a major HB1 visa hub.