Re: The child sized elephant in the room
Poor people are poor because they graduated in Engineering, and got a series of highly paid jobs for a series of employers who ceased trading because of:
Random decisions taken by a parent company in another country.
Political decisions resulting from change of government.
Company going bankrupt because of withdrawl of support after bank manager found to be corrupt.
Company going bankrupt because of government interference in the market,
Company going bankrupt because of retrospective change in tax interpretation.
Company going bankrupt because managers corrupt.
Company going bankrupt because of global economic disaster,
Company going bankrupt because of Ebola
You get the general picture. If you are employed, you are at risk of your employer, your government, the world, or yourself making unfortunate decisions, with catastrophic consequences for your income. This is far worse in STEM jobs than in garbage collection, or supermarket shelf stacking.
It is no wonder there are not enough engineers in the UK. Anyone with half a grain of sense will have sussed out that it is in the same risk league as being an Actor, but without the prestige. The rest of us learned the hard way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
