I sorta quit my controls design career - (mostly contract work) as I found it being taken over by people "who want to make big bucks" and have great acting skills and can win the boss's trust using every trick in the book. As a detailed electrical designer / software writer, I have no time to compete with their back stabbing.

In the 80's it was more geeks that would help each other, now it is a new breed of...im not sure... giant ego, can convince anyone of anything and absolutely takes out anyone that they are working with that they deem a threat(those who actually having studied and worked their ass of to be as good as they can)

how do you feel about engineering these days?