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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't found engineers to be overly arrogant.  Doctors, especially surgeons - yikes.[/quote]

+1 -- FWIW -- I'm the mom of 2 budding engineers (now in college) whose grandfather -- my dad -- is a surgeon

and, BTW, at the university my kids attend, there are lots of socially adept engineering profs and students, both male and female -- they're geeks, but not nerds, and actually, quite a few of them are athletic, outdoorsy types [/quote]

Agreed.  I work with a lot of doctors and holy crap!  Painfully arrogant, so many of them.

Engineers, not so much.  But I have a bias, since my husband's a very geeky engineer.  [/quote]

The difference is that we (engineers) don't get paid a damned thing and doctors do.
Working 8 years, masters degree, 70 hour weeks - salary is less than a teacher and certainly no OT, no bonus of any kind and no summers off.
Busted my ass in school too. 
It's not like anyone realizes what you do either, even if it's a matter of national importance.
Engineers can be arrogant but often just to each other (which is a pain) but to others? Not sure I notice that
but maybe the arrogance comes in place of a decent wage.
(And if you don't like your wage - some guy/gal from India will do your work for cheap until he gets deported)

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I have to disagree.  I am a scientist (not an engineer, but the salaries are similar in my field vs. EE).  I make more -- much more than any public school teacher.  We hire people with MS's at about 75K -80K, and PhD's at about 100K.  I am making closer to 200K.

That is decent money.[/quote]

Wow.  I'm a physicist, top schools, barely pulling 100k.  Wish I knew where you were...I'd come work for you![/quote]

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