I 1000% agree with you; both my parents were aerospace engineers and when they were going through college that was what everyone was pushed to choose as a caree

I 1000% agree with you; both my parents were aerospace engineers and when they were going through college that was what everyone was pushed to choose as a career; nowadays it's tech (software) - so I see that problem very clearly. (in my message above, "tech" refers to software tech, it's an overloaded term so I normally refer to electrical/mechanical engineering just as that)