I'm sure you'd do really well in a design office as well Mr Grumps - degrees are not intended to create maintenance engineers and aircraft inspectors, any more than you can expect the best maintainer in the world to know how to do stress analysis on a wing mainspar, or analyse the aerodynamic efficiency of the flaps. Both would probably be a bit bewildered if asked to set up manufacturing of a new aircraft from plans - that's another set of skills altogether.
We're all trained for specific jobs in this broad field called "Engineering" - let's just worry about accepting each other's equivalent standards, and avoiding giving too much status to the "photocopier engineer" who probably did a 3 week course once!
G