Engineering is an art form, like playing guitar or painting. But unlike playing guitar or painting, engineering provides a framework to make a fair wad of cash fairly reliably - for both the engineer and especially for his/her/.*'s employer.

The problem is that most of the people becoming engineers (specifically software engineers) are meek, idealistic brainiacs who love computers, and their educations are not teaching them how to survive post-college in the vicious tech industry. Putting our cute little nerd into the tech industry is like giving the same nerd a Rolex and sending him to a dangerous city like Camden, NJ.

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