I did 6 months using my electrical engineering degree working for a provincial power utility. Every day felt like Office Space, and I could feel myself aging with every day. Soul crushing experience categorized by florescent lights and grey quarter cubicles.
I no longer use my electrical engineering degree and my life is much better.
almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
History isn't your strong suit, is it?
Ah well, the current oligarchic state of China is totally unrelated to the system that created it, and instead is a bastardization of "true" communism, right?
The important part is the company, tbh. I'd be using my degree if I lived somewhere I could do electronics work.