Engineer with a degree: "I want to design revolutionary infrastructure and solve complex problems."
Railroad industry: "Here's a divine calling to maintain 200-year-old technology that hasn't fundamentally changed since the steam era."
The career trajectory of engineering graduates is the greatest thermodynamic example of potential energy never converting to kinetic energy. Thirteen years of education just to apply the same solutions from 1950. The only innovation happening is finding new ways to pretend you're busy during mandatory safety meetings.