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<p>This is a joke, right?</p>
<p>Re engineering: I read an article recently (can’t remember source) which argued that engineering is not the golden ticket to a secure upper-middle-class life that people think it is. The gist was that engineering is an up-or-out profession; that 40-year-old engineers have to make the jump to management or become entrepreneurs, or they are simply replaced by younger, cheaper talent (the reason why, despite our need for engineers, there are not a few unemployed ones). Just a thought.</p>