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[Hoodat]

@Hoodat

I'm not an engineer. I'm a dood wid a GED.

@sneakypete

I also have a GED.  Never graduated High School.  If I had it to do over again, I never would have gotten the GED.  It isn't needed to get into college.

[Elderberry]

@Hoodat

I'm not an engineer. I'm a dood wid a GED. I define "it works" when I get something to do what I need it to do,and to hell with everything else.

I'm not an engineer either. I was foolish enough though to stick with school through a 4 year BSET that took me 11 years start to finish. Well Navy took up 4 of those years.
and several years as a "Junior Engineer". And what was funny was that none of the jobs I held required all that education. All that mattered was "Can you do the work?"

And when I get sumpin working, I use it. I take no time prettying it up.

[libertybele]

In the Bayou there be Gators.

In the Everglades there are boas, pythons, anacondas and gators.

[HoustonSam]

An engineer's job should never involve the phrase 'it ain't gonna work'.  An engineer's job is to find a way to make it work.

After 30 years on the interface of R&D with other functions I have to disagree.  The most important thing a technical professional can do is to recognize which approaches can work and which cannot work so we stop wasting resources on the latter and put them on the former.  When all ideas have to be nurtured and encouraged we get far fewer useful end products and far more science projects that go nowhere and usually don't even add up to good science.

At least that's been my experience.

[sneakypete]

In the Everglades there are boas, pythons, anacondas and gators.

@libertybele

You know what is NOT in the Everglades?
 
ME!

[sneakypete]

I too only have a GED and did not go to college at all. I was hired as a engineering tech at a large Sunnyvale microwave (and RF and digital) communications equipment manufacturer in the early 80's. I was promoted to junior design engineer and then senior design engineer after about 2 or 3 years. Can't really remember when anymore... I had a hard time getting through the door on the initial hiring as an engineering tech due to the HR department. But once I was finally hired I had no problems moving forward. After about 5 years of that I did consulting for several years and then started my own satellite communications company designing and selling satellite modems (and other related equipment) all over the world. I also hold patents on communications tech.

@DB

I once made a whiskey still and and a bong.

May not SEEM all that impressive,but I was VERY happy with the performance of both.

Not to mention several Harley choppers.

Or at least I think I was. Which when you think about it,is the same thing.

[Smokin Joe]

Castles have catacombs.

Let the donkeys pack 'em off--- @roamer_1 , rednecks have pigpens too...

[roamer_1]

Let the donkeys pack 'em off--- @roamer_1 , rednecks have pigpens too...

 

[Joe Wooten]

I probably wouldn't be an engineer if I could communicate effectively.  Absolutely adore using drawings to communicate.  I frequently leave out words that would have help describe...

I really try to reread and understand what I left out, but the voices in my head just fill in the blanks automatically...

 

That is why unless it is another engineer, I am almost worthless as a teacher.

[Joe Wooten]

But...

It is also the engineer's job to determine if there's a violation of the laws of physics and to cut it off before too many resources are wasted on it. Something can look great until those pesky little nitty gritty details start emerging showing otherwise. It is real easy to ignore some "little" detail that no one has an answer for and keep going with the project with plans to address it later only to find out it can't be solved later with what was already done... Those are the things that should be done first. You have to resolve the unknowns first or at least know that they are solvable with certainty on the path you are taking.

In the nuke world, we have an acronym for that - LOPA - Loss of Physics Accident......

[GtHawk]

In the Everglades there are boas, pythons, anacondas and gators.

Damn that's a lot boots.

[Smokin Joe]

Damn that's a lot boots.

Snake steaks!

[DB]

In the nuke world, we have an acronym for that - LOPA - Loss of Physics Accident......

These sort of mistakes tend to be expensive...