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And a corollary question: how many US engineers in US companies are employed for every non-techie?

Make your own job man, if you did any freelance work then you were self employed.

Mark Twain was a suppose the best known author to have been employed as a typographer.

Oh, and now that I'm happily employed at my current employer, I still get frequent calls from recruiters.

If you're any good at all, you will always be employed and well compensated.

I was employed as an engineer for over 30 years, and in November of 2014, I was laid off.

I posted a snippet from your history that suggests that you may indeed be employed in defense/aerospace.

I would feel the same if you were employed in most any other industry, and commenting in a similar manner.

I've never been in need of more due to being self-employed most of my life.

He mentioned having to fire people, so I wonder how many people he employed.

No mention to Y2K and mankind can thank the millions of man/hours employed (and regally paid) to stamp out the majority of the occurrences of that bug.

Back in employed world of course it can be the opposite -- you become a master of whatever tech your company is using but get little exposure outside that.

The places where I was actually employed all used Skype, and "bearable" is the best I can say about it.

He faked his own references (via fax at that time) to get in the door, and when people made reference to university he just sidestepped the question or gave vague "yeah" type answers as he had not attended but had left school at the minimum legal age and become self employed (and failed a couple of times).

I didn't have my laptop handy (only my iPad and iPhone) so instead I used the "checkout as a guest" option and employed the "+" separator trick (i.e., I used "me+papajohns@" as my e-mail address).

You won't get >4 weeks paid vacation in "most of eg Texas", or actually affordable healthcare, or paid maternity leave (let alone multiple month worth) and post-leave work-hour arrangements, or a "sacred lunchtime", or the ability to work flexible hours without being looked at like a loser (unless you're self-employed maybe ), or 80% salary unemployment, or the ability to live without owning a car.