[analog31]

I work for a company that makes electronic products. We outsource the signing-off kind of engineering to a company that also does electrical regulatory testing for us. Here's my impression about it.

The work is boring, as in mind-crushing boring. You don't get to invent or design anything. Your job is to watch other people invent things, and then run those things through a set of checklists, while documenting everything.

One thing about programming is that it's democratic, inasmuch as anybody can download Python and start programming. Including me. Nobody will stop me, and I will invent things. We already have the situation in my department, that I'm not "allowed" to program, meaning that I "prototype" things, and the programming department turns them into a product that can be shipped.

Programming is too important to be left to the programmers. ;-)