my high school counselors (not to mention my family and their friends) thought I would never amount to anything.
I believe in you
you can't kid yourself in thinking they are anything but a minority, and a fairly small one at that with regards to humans in general.
10% is not so small..
.. In fact our Fabrication department would probably be better off with free software
It's nice to see companies, such as yours, naming their departments correctly and honestly. Most other companies would call it "Legal department".
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn