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<p>Wouldn’t we all, but that only raises the question that I had asked before on other threads - how do you actually do that? That is to say, what are the actionable but non-obvious steps (especially regarding what you shouldn’t do) to become one of those vaunted and cossetted 10,000? </p>
<p>I ask only because there seem to be plenty of practicing engineers - especially non-software engineers - who never seem to enjoy anywhere near to those 10:1 jobs to applicants ratios with nice supervisors and low stress. Heck, we seem to have one rather voluble such poster (Mark77) who seems to be treating these forums as a plead for help. What are all these engineers doing wrong? Specifically, what may they be doing that they perhaps shouldn’t be doing?</p>