Engineer here too! Well qualified, design gas turbine (jet engine) parts. Both civil and military. Have a full machine chop and fabrication shop at home, from when I used to run my own business. Problem with 'proper' engineering is that its hard to to get people to appreciate the time and effort things take. Making one off stuff takes hours, compared to setting up production batches as minutes er piece. And people expect the one off to be cheaper as 'you just knocked it up', and 'you have all the tools'. Now more run the machine shop for fun, and get involved in bigger programmes for daily employment.. .