"Memoirs of an Engineer in America and Beyond", is the painful experience the author Gerald Aksheirian had endured in the service of many engineering firms in US he has been employed within various capacities as an electrical power engineer. He also describes his experience with foreign firms Aramco/SCECO, and Serete French corporation in Saudi Arabia. While serving at many engineering firms in US, he came to observe to his utter shock overwhelming corruption and incompetence were preserving and promoting self-interest to the utter detriment of the firm engineers are employed at, is the only driving force in the struggle for survival.
Being utterly gullible and patriotic, It took the author many years of service and suffering to realize that engineers in US, are not to serve the public interests, or the nation, neither the firm they are employed at, not even "humanity" as he always came to believe as many also proclaim, but to their "boss", the only one to whose pleasure they are to serve. It is the law.