> I'm not seeing how engineering doesn't need sales just as much. Sales is hard if you don't have innate talent or a decent amount of experience. Design, deve

> I'm not seeing how engineering doesn't need sales just as much. Sales is hard if you don't have innate talent or a decent amount of experience. Design, development, implementation and testing of modern technology is pretty much impossible without engineering education and experience. Independent consulting engineers may find they don't make as much money as they could with a little more salesmanship. A salesman, however, with nothing to sell, goes broke. The relationship is not symmetric.