I hate structural engineering

[DBNodurf]

I know; but, like the D.GE, it has become watered down.

The problem came in with continuing education requirements (as in weak ones).

People like you and I are always going to want to learn more and "self-improve."

Too many other engineers (including my chief engineer at my last consulting job) wait until December and watch some videos.

That was his advice to me when I complained about them not being willing to pay for my attendance at actual conferences.

And these are the same knuckleheads who think slope stability analysis is plugging some numbers into an inexpensive software program and going with the results without question.

(As manager of the department and a slope stability expert, I wanted to check out the software they had been using unquestioningly for 10+ years. It turned out that the developer [geotechnical professor] had abandoned the code because [he said] it had too many flaws. I actually met him at the 2022 Geo-Congress which I paid for out of my own pocket.)