I’ve drove a laser cutter for ten years, I wouldn’t call it engineering, more glorified dump truck driver, with a temperamental dumb truck that is more art than

I’ve drove a laser cutter for ten years, I wouldn’t call it engineering, more glorified dump truck driver, with a temperamental dumb truck that is more art than science to operate. The technology has got a shinier interface since I started, but the fundamental problems are the same. When it breaks, you call the service technician, unless your the one in a thousand employee who happens to be a boilermaker by trade, an IT service technician and software neonate, also handy with a soldering iron, can install and repair refraction systems, work on live mains safely, research and install additional power supply protection devices, lighting suppression, UPS, knows there way around layers 1 through 7… And that company treated me like I was some kind of freak. But yeah, generally a laser cutter operator pushes buttons, and empties catch trays if they’re lucky. Engineers design the things, the operators are largely meat for the grinder.