You weren't an engineer to begin with (it's a shame that so many software types donned themselves with that moniker in the late nineties).

That designation is left to those gullible enough to swallow the B.S. spiel from the Financial States of America about technological youth.

thegarbz hits the nail on the head above. Why become an engineer? He's also right that other societies value engineers just as the U.S. trivializes their talents.

- an M.S.E.E. turned Software DEVELOPER