I picked the one engineering discipline most useful to society and not dedicated to the sole purpose of treat making……

I WAS TOLD I’D BE A FUCKING BEAVER BUILDING DAMS BUT I’M MORE LIKE A FUCKING BUREAUCRAT EDITING WORD DOCUMENTS FOR TYPOS WHAT THE FUCK

EVERYWHERE I GO, ITS A BULLSHIT JOB. ENGINEERING IS THE MOST USELESS LIB INCREMENTALIST BULLSHIT OUT THERE.

KILL EVERYONE WHO SAYS ‘YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN USEFUL DEGREE IF U WANTED MEANINGFUL WORK AND HIGH PAY.’

PROGRAMMING GATCHA GAMES IS NOT USEFUL U FUCKING NERD

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The most essential engineering discipline is also consistently the lowest paid engineering discipline.

HUH HOW ABOUT THAT. STUDY STEM™

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Did you get to play with those surveyor tripod things, though?

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i have, i don’t know how the fuck to use them lol

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I KNEW IT

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From what I can remember, you just stand next to it in a patch of grass in front of the engineering building. Just sort of stand there with a clipboard with a puzzled look on your face.

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oh i’ve done that for a living a while back, its actually a lot of work both in the field and in the office. it was pretty fun because we got to go to different parts of the city every day and measure shit then use cad software to draft it. only issue was of course i was not getting paid the full amount because i didn’t have the degree necessary to practice it so i eventually gave up on it. not a bs job though at least

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I don’t think you’re really viewed as an engineer proper until you get your PE. Sometimes you’ll be doing design work but often you’ll be picking up the menial work that needs to be done by someone, and you just happen to be the newest

Fellow CE btw

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u can’t be a PE unless you’ve worked 4 years under a PE doing ‘engineering work’. In other words, forget about actually getting the jobs, you need a proper job for 4 years to get a proper job. Like, it makes sense, we need training to sign off on damgerous projects and things of enormous importance but nobody told me this shit would be like medical school lol

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Don’t forget you gotta get your FE before your PE :yea:

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But software devs writing control software for surgical assistance robots and autonomous vehicles can work at any level of a project straight out of senior year

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As a machinist, when the mechanical engineers drop oddball shit on me to figure out on my own, it is at least more interesting than doing production. All that basic trigonometry I learned for video game shit finally pays off.

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That’s not true for all fields. For example, PE is useless for aerospace engineering. You can be a chief engineer with a PhD at NASA and there is zero requirement/expectation for you to have a PE. It’s really only for civvies.

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Momma and Daddy told me I should be a painter. But, no, I was obstinate and followed my dreams of being an engineer instead.

:shapiro-poplar:

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