>>12027256A lot of people who get engineering degrees in the first place aren't really passionate about engineering. They want their degrees as a status symbol more than anything. Maybe in highschool they liked cars or airplanes or some meme technology that normies obsess over despite having very superficial knowledge of it, and wanted a job that had something to do with that technology, and their parents told them to be engineers instead of mechanics/technicians because it's more prestigious and "my kid is the smartest most special kid who will succeed at anything". Then they spend the next four years barely scraping by in an incredibly intense, competitive program, and finally get a piece of paper with their name on it, along with more debt than your average undergrad due to the higher tuition costs. Now they have an unwarranted sense of superiority because they actually managed to graduate without having a solid understanding of many of the concepts they were taught. The less they achieved, and the more they struggled, the more proud of themselves they are. They see scientists as nerds who have no grasp of practical applications of concepts, because they can't conceive that someone can understand how an internal combustion engine actually works without an engineering degree. Partially because they didn't even know how it worked until they were taught about the Carnot cycle in thermodynamics. They just thought cars were "cool" and "engine burn gas go vrooom make car go FAST". 1/3 of those grads actually work as engineers, 1/3 of them get hired for non-engineering jobs jobs because the manager wants someone who "thinks like an engineer", and the final 1/3 work in a totally unrelated field.
t.Mechanical Engineering grad
Sorry for the blog post
