One of the most self confident engineer I've worked with was an older tooling engineer, my supervisor for four years. He taught me (by example) to say, "I screwed up."
How is that exhibiting self confidence?
He understood he was human and would occasionally "screw up."
He would accept...
Beggar's right. I personally am glad I waited 12 years to start my MS. Why? My employer is paying for it. I didn't rack up additional debt and interest. It's like a bonus on top of my salary. And the classes I'm in are filled with like minded professionals with experience. The instructors...
If you want to retire early, enlist. Navy or AirForce have the greatest history in tech jobs. Don't know if foreigners can enlist, though. Might be useful info for other readers.
I've known a lot of people who retire military in early 40's and started (or continued) new careers while living...
Go in with the attitude that everyone has something worthwhile to learn, yes, even the custodian. Especially the line-people/operators. Let them know you understand that they're the ones that have a direct link to the money coming into the company (as product ships out). If they understand...
I just wish the US would finally bite the bullet and switch to metric. This glacial move into SI is maddening. I daily work with designs that are English (Imperial?) in disguise like bored holes that are 9.525mm. Yeah, right! (grump)
And I'm old (but not at heart!)
I remember my favorite candy was Cherry-Its. Small pea sized cherry flavored candies in a poke (small canvas bag with a pull string closure). The bag came with a small straw and you could either suck the candy from the poke and chew it or use the straw to then pelt your friends. Quite fun...
I graduated at 39, took 18 months to find a job (affected everyone, not just me, an industry downturn in 1994), and have not regreted it once. I've over doubled my original salary, have a PE, working on my MS (company paid, ;-) ) and have yet to experience the "age factor" even though I've...
I agree that perhaps it's not important what her profession is but it is important how she approaches issues, life, problems. I have envied my friends whom are married engineers (they got the degrees after several years of marriage). They compliment each other well (he's mechanical, she's...
I thought they loosened up the restrictions on things like Leatherman tools about a year ago. I believe nail clippers and such are now allowed but I haven't had the opportunity to test it. What a sad society we live in if a plane can be commandeered by a nut with a nail file.
Sorry about the...
I actually found out I could rent Fireball XL5 from Netflix. I can't believe I use to get excited about that Saturday morning program but it was neat to think you could swallow a pill and not die in the vacuum of space. And their take-offs were so cool.
epoisses makes a good point (several, actually). For my current job, I was flown in for the interview. While I was waiting with the HR rep. for the hiring engineering manager to call me in, I thought, "nothing ventured, nothing gained.". So I ask the HR rep. what my competition was like and...
This asteroid hit a pre-dino deposit of oil and coal, burning and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere thereby causing a warming trend sending the dinos into a media frensy communicating that the world was ending thereby causing the dinos to stampede off the cliff. The asteroid is the precursor SUV...
