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    Women in Engineering II

    Seen from Europe (so, from Venus) this kind of graphs looks like it's from another dimension. I know Golden retriever is a race, I did not know the other ones. I did not know Apu makes more than the rest of us. He is Asian, right? India is in Asia last time I checked. But Indians come in all...
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    Pulling of a stuck bundle from a Heat exchanger

    Can you close the shell again or is the bundle stuck half-way out? First analyse what exactly is in there, is it really coke or rust? The cleanest solution I guess is to close the shell and flush it if you can, in a continous loop, adding heat and chemicals as required, depending on what the...
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    I know brown bags (lunch and learns

    Ask a supplier to come and do a technical presentation. They will be glad to take all the work out of your hands :)
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    Anyone's office moving to "Standing desks"?

    Windowed meeing rooms... interesting that some companies apparently mistrust their own employees more than the outside world. If open space were great, it would have been a senior management privilege.
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    Anxious about my Entry Level job I just got hired for

    “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” ― Salvador Dali I don't see how anyone would prefer sorting out conflicting vacation requests and other "management activities" over using their engineering brains...
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    Help choosing insurance company in Germany

    Hi, your HR dept should help you out here, that's what they are for. They will also be able to answer the net income question. I don't know the German system, I presume there is a myriad of private health insurance providers. It's not just a matter of complying with the law, you would like...
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    Is using ALL CAPS ever acceptable in email?

    Option 1 for sure. Option 2 is just tldr and another excuse for misunderstanding. But ALLCAPS is very unprofessional. Pros vent their anger in bold.
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    Anxious about my Entry Level job I just got hired for

    Man I heard that a lot in the beginning of my career. You must be buddhist about that. Don't consider your idea as part of your identity. Don't get depressed. Just improve the thing. Don't worry about quick witty talent or having to build robots in your spare time. That's not part of the job...
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    Anxious about my Entry Level job I just got hired for

    Terratek's list is actually a list of quotes from the OP's various posts in this thread. I don't know if most people go through this. It sounds like an emotional roller coaster. @Space213, try not to judge too quickly. You've been there less than a month. You've started to discover that: - Work...
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    Master degree in which field?

    That is typically learnt on the job. As a chemical engineer in a big company, your usual first job is plant engineer on one or a few process units. Sooner or later a project will come along in your area (you're actually supposed to initiate or at least scope and screen them yourself) and that is...
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    Problems with coworkers

    This is hard to figure out through a forum. Do you have at least 1 person in the company that you get along with and who is familiar with all people involved? If so, tell him or her in all frankness what seems to be going on and ask whether it might have anything to do with you. It may or may...
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    Centimeter Sight Glass Graduations on a Horizontal Cylindrical Process Volume Tank with round ends

    Can you use this? https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/construction/tank.php
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    Carbon Capture and Sequestration

    Plus the atmosphere would run out of oxygen. I don't see any better solution for the surplus CO2 other than photosynthesize it all back, whether we have the trees do it or whether we help them somehow.
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    Too many jobs?

    No I'm not painting any picture, it's just an image I got from reading diagonally what you wrote, and I wanted to send it back to you to see what happened. I did not cherry pick, I just did not read most of your post as I said. It's very long. I think you should start your own business. That's...
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    Who knows "Techniques de l'ingénieur"?

    They have a couple dummy articles ("articles témoins") in various domains that you can download for free to see if they're worth anything. The paid ones won't get any better than the free ones :) I don't know them really, they sound like a venerable institution but then any fool can sound like...
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    Too many jobs?

    Be honest to yourself and to your potential new employer. Are you really looking for a long term job this time? Then up to you to convince them that this time's for real. The way you format your resume just means 10 seconds more of the HR manager's time to figure out the situation. I must admit...
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    Anxious about my Entry Level job I just got hired for

    What I would do is, show up a little early, don't look at the clock during the day, have lunch when the others have lunch, leave when the others leave. If you want to make it past the 90 days, it's essential to become a member of the team.
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    Anxious about my Entry Level job I just got hired for

    No, man. The other people are paid to help you get up to speed as fast as possible. You're not wasting anyone's time at work by being trained - formally or informally. You'd be wasting your own private time if you took work home and learn in a less effective/efficient manner than if you "dared...
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    Anxious about my Entry Level job I just got hired for

    A job that you fully master from day 1 cannot be much fun, at least not for long. It's perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed. Entry level engineers can definitely innovate. You have not been pre-formatted in "the way we always used to do it". Enjoy that time, in a few years it will be over :)...
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    Why do people email instead of chatting face-to-face?

    Email is quick. Email is traceable. Email does not interrupt any of the discussion partners. Try calling a meeting or a teleconference and see if it's any more efficient than an email discussion. No way. Now the above is true only for people that are reasonably organised (not the ones with...

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