The thing that I resent most is that today's Mechanical Engineers or any BSME for that matter is quickly promoted to Senior Engineer in a year or two and senior manager with 3-4 years experience, Director 6 years,- WTF!. Thats is BS!!! Took me over 10 years to be a senior ME, gotta have the experience first, man has the world changed!
This is due to the younger generation having no interest in these classic fields. We cannot find any well educated engineering grad students that have a grasp of common sense or willing to put in the work to figure it out. They all seem to want top of the line pay for below average skills. I'd say we weed through about 10-15 rejects to find one 'reasonably skilled' grad worth hiring. Then we need to fight off the competition for the next ten years to keep them from being stolen. Youngsters seem to want to go into computer stuff and animation. Or sit on their butts in Mom's basement. Can you tell I had a bad day?
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
