Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by nickelpro on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:00AM (#32147394)

> At the time of this comment almost all the top comments are about pay. No doubt pay is an important consideration, but it worries me when it’s the primary consideration. The best engineers I know like engineering because they have a natural curiosity to learn how things work, not because it’s the easiest route to riches.

This is not incompatible with what the comments are saying. I'm an ECE, I love hardware and working in VLSI, and I eagerly engage with the open hardware movement. I also love working with software, it scratches the same itch, hacking on multiplier layouts and hacking on SIMD accelerated code both involve the same type of analytical mindset.

And yet I work in software because it pays more. As always, these "this highly skilled occupation is collapsing" posts are linked entirely to pay. A talented EE or CE can easily transition to software, and they do.

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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by bumby on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:25AM (#32150502)

I said it elsewhere, but I am not implying a false dichotomy. Indeed, I’m one of those engineers who took a software job in part because I get to work on more interesting problems. But it’s telling that the top comments are only about money and (at least at the time of my OP) not about “money and interesting/fulfilling work”

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