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Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Glenn Beck Breaks The Idiot-Meter With Titanic Sub Take | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.
I'm an aerospace engineer who's spent 30+ years in industrial control systems and automation. Over that time I gained formal qualifications in safety engineering including the second highest any engineer can get for what we call Functional Safety. I can tell you for a fact those qualifications have NEVER GOT ME WORK (contract or permanent). Pointing out that I was qualified got me into trouble on numerous occasions and even licked off projects or off site. The simple fact is that when you are QUALIFIED in safety engineering you do get sacked and there is no support or mercy coming from anywhere. This is how this stuff happens and things like the Boeing Max-8. In Australia where I am there are a couple of rare areas where formal qualifications are required by law. Most notably in structural engineering. I actually went to the Institute of Engineers in Australia to try and get them to lobby for rules requiring QUALIFIED people to approve of high risk installations. They and the other professional organisations were simply NOT INTERESTED. We have never needed more engineers across the developed world. Due to the neoliberal economics massive amounts of infrastructure everywhere is either so old it needs replacing or its so badly maintained by cost cutting it needs replacing AND YET I can't think of a worse profession to be in right now. Engineering degrees are NOT Easy there's a lot of math because engineering is fundamentally a profession of applied math. Structures, thermodynamics, aerodynamics,... is all applied math. WORSE our careers and job paths are dominated by Human Resource clowns. I have ACTUALLY DEALT with so called professional recruiters who could not tell the difference between an electrician and an electrical engineer or a mechanic and a mechanical engineer or a chemist and a chemical engineer. I have heard things from from other professions but can't really comment, but I can assure the entire Human Resources industry has been a disaster for STEM fields.
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