The current state of engineering

[Alan V]

Now, as we are “3rd world engineers” we do these bullshit jobs. In more developed countries the “real engineers” do the “real work”, which would be design, development, etc.

Idk how it is in other countries, but it seems to be being an engineering nowadays it’s just like a specialized technician, maybe not even that. Most Engineers no longer create, invent or design. Everything is already automized on a PC. You just follow instructions. Had I known this I wouldn’t have studied engineering.

How is the engineering experience in your country?

I live in the U.S., and before I retired I was a drafter/designer working under engineers for my whole career. At my first company, we created control cabinets for electric motors that ran steel mills, paper mills, and so on. At my second company, we created digital switching equipment for various telephone companies. At my third company, where I worked for 20 years, we created satellites for commercial and military applications.

In the first company the work was rather routine, but in the second and third companies we were creating stuff that had never been created before. Design and packaging were therefore highly challenging. It was fun work in itself, but the schedules were so unreasonable that it made most everyone miserable.

However, I worked at big companies all three times. I understand smaller companies may not be the same because engineers must wear more hats. They don't always have designers to do a lot of the simpler work for them.