> I'm not sure other industries do handle it better. They don't. The factory I used to work at routinely fires competent, productive engineers because they ne

> I'm not sure other industries do handle it better. They don't. The factory I used to work at routinely fires competent, productive engineers because they need scapegoats for management failures. The bigger the failure, the bigger the scapegoat, so sometimes it goes all the way up to director level, but that's only once every few years. Realizing that all it would take to lose my livelihood would be for me to be in the wrong place at the wrong time was one of the big reasons I left.