“Working with engineers as my profession”

“Henry Ford over a hundred years ago called the assembly line.”

Engineering IS a multidisciplinary career; you are not going to do finite element analysis on a stack of paper, I don’t even think governments will accept a full-blown hand sketch drawing. Everyone will at least want a cad file, everyone will want to use software with interoperability, paper doesn’t do that…

Now let’s talk about skillset inflation and wage stagnation, while babysitting your colleagues being paid more than you.