I got to talking with a power line crew as we waited for the utility to give the go-ahead to fix downed lines in our neighborhood. They felt the utility engine

I got to talking with a power line crew as we waited for the utility to give the go-ahead to fix downed lines in our neighborhood. They felt the utility engineering personnel had very little comprehension of how the field work was actually done, and complained they got direction that made little or no sense. And they made a lot more than the engineers, though they had to travel the country and work long hours to do so. These guys were licensed and came through a certification program, but had little or no college. They allowed that the engineers had much better theoretical knowledge, but were so divorced from the realities of the work as to be basically useless in disaster recovery.