I can do far better for far less. But then, I am person who can recreate all of our manufacturing tech from the ground up.

That's awesome. I studied electric / computing systems, and when I had my previous job as salesperson for elevators / escalators, I found out that I can't grasp mechanical concepts all that well. So I made it a point to learn the details from extraction to fabrication to installation - glad to have learned about that, but still pretty limited since its so specialised.