There are not many like me I've been told. The old school engineers. So now we're in high demand. Never saw that coming. 🤓
Discussion
By "old school", I assume you mean something like "competent, intelligent, diligent, and conscientious". My wife is an engineer of this type, and not many of her colleagues seem to be. Certainly not the younger ones. It seems like the engineering schools have finally fallen to the "everybody gets a trophy" mindset that has taken down most other fields, and aren't producing a very high quality product any more.
The scary part is, even if the decline is arrested and reversed, there's already two generations of not-very-good engineers in the pipeline that can cause a lot of damage in their 40+ year careers. There aren't enough old-schoolers to go around, so some of the seats inevitably get filled with people who shouldn't be doing that job.