My dad is civil engineer. He stopped working with engineering about 15 years ago, because there was too many engineers, the pay was too low to be worth the eff

My dad is civil engineer. He stopped working with engineering about 15 years ago, because there was too many engineers, the pay was too low to be worth the effort and risk. He recently resumed working with engineering, and unfortunately remembered why he had left in first place, he worked in a couple projects, and most of them had engineers getting pay less than senior construction workers, and companies frequently believed that hiring an engineer was just out of necessity because the law says so, and otherwise would build whatever they want without one. This does had some very, very bad effects, like when an engineer-less construction company thought it was good idea to just demolish some pillars that were in the way of what they wanted to build, and managed to demolish two buildings and damage a third. (this happened in Rio de Janeiro... the person that asked to take down the pillars was the secretary, that looked at the project and concluded that by taking down the pillars they could fit more desks in the office they were furbishing...)