Also the stereotypical pay issue. They'll only pay average or lower despite the annoyances of the job being top 1% or so of jobs. (drug tests, sec clearance, u

Also the stereotypical pay issue. They'll only pay average or lower despite the annoyances of the job being top 1% or so of jobs. (drug tests, sec clearance, unbelievable endless bureaucracy, weird job reqs, etc) There are cultural issues, I remember reading something about "mid career" mech engineers being five years exp. Which is great if you graduated at age 55 or so, not so good if you graduated at 22 with loans that will take more than 10 years to pay off. Meanwhile theres a handful of "lifer" boomers who clog up the promotion pipeline until death at which point the talent pool is empty between the ages of perhaps 30 to 60. Its a poor conditions, underpaid, temp job, more or less. Insert surprise that people would rather work anywhere else.