@tess I mean that is true in every other engineering discipline as well.

I know engineers—passed the FE, qualified for the EIT at a minimum, and have an ABET-accredited degree with "engineering" in the title engineers—who have worked on the B-52, on the Atlas-V rocket. I know engineers who have worked for companies like Boeing, Northrop-Grumann, and Ball Aerospace.

We aren't unique: others deal with the same.

But also: I am #union. Partly for this reason exactly. That's a solvable problem.