Thought about this a handful of times in the past couple of years. My family is composed of mostly materials engineers, fab engineers and mechanical engineers.

Thought about this a handful of times in the past couple of years. My family is composed of mostly materials engineers, fab engineers and mechanical engineers. I'm one of the few who _chose_ to work on computers from the start. In the end, these people get funneled into cubicles to do CAD/CAM work and spend their day fussing over customer foibles. The pay is basically half of what I do and each promotion is more of a life event than anything. I've earned more per year in 5y in cybersecurity than my brother has in 18y as a fab engineer. He loves his work though. Certainly has more days where he's pulling out his hair because he has to work alongside blue-collar, disinterested young adults though.