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EE has become a discipline with three main areas: electrical power, electronics and programming. Of the three, programming has had a very large share of the students. The huge surge of folks into programming, and their subsequent layoffs, have a lot to do with the "dissatisfaction" discussed in the article.

I am the rarest of animals. I am an EE working as a Software Systems Safety Engineer. Amazing, growing field as more and more systems take humans 'out of the loop'. I lucked into it. I can work as a systems engineer, a system safety engineer, a software system engineer or as a programmer. It is the age of the generalist....

I am an EE working as a Software Systems Safety Engineer

Hey, I am an EE with a CSP. Many times my systems engineering moved me in the direction of Systems Safety too. About half the time we were worried about software initiating some high energy device. Many times I interfaced with the fine engineers at Sandia. You are in a great area. I am retired now, but there was no end of available work.