Parents, don't let your kids grow up to be engineers!

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Don't attempt to engage me...the game is on.

 

[csb]

Getting back to the original article, if not the original topic, I found this sentence in the document absolutely insulting:

To accelerate change, we need to stop treating gender as if it were just a woman’s burden.

Since when is my gender a burden?! What kind of mindset is that? Good gosh.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Mine's a bit of a burden to carry around everywhere I go...if you get what I mean.

 

[Master slacker]

I thought the original topic involved exengineer being off his rocker

 

[maryannette]

I don't know whether to :sniff: or uke: !

 

[XOXOXO]

I breezed through it. But, if it's about the woman initiative, where's the picture of the clean kitchen? Or dinner?

There's an entire book on the history of menstruation. And yes, I had to bring it there.

Anywho...the book has all these flippin hysterical articles from before the time pilots and teachers were allowed to smoke at work...

Great stuff.

Happy 4th!! I'm hitting the nude beach!

 

[Ble_PE]

I breezed through it. But, if it's about the woman initiative, where's the picture of the clean kitchen? Or dinner?

There's an entire book on the history of menstruation. And yes, I had to bring it there.

Anywho...the book has all these flippin hysterical articles from before the time pilots and teachers were allowed to smoke at work...

Great stuff.

Happy 4th!! I'm hitting the nude beach!

Ok, you know it's going to be asked: PICS?

 

[XOXOXO]

There are rules of etiquette...I'm afraid pics are not allowed.

Aren't I supposed to be cooking or some$#it?

 

[willsee]

when did women get on the internet

what is this

 

[Master slacker]

There are rules of etiquette...I'm afraid pics are not allowed.
Aren't I supposed to be cooking or some$#it?

1) Edit each pic by putting a black bar across your eyes.

2) Yes.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

There are rules of etiquette...I'm afraid pics are not allowed.

rlyflag:

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Happy 4th!! I'm hitting the nude beach!

And you wonder why no guy will take you seriously.

Hope you don't get sand anywhere uncomfortable.

 

[XOXOXO]

Happy 4th!! I'm hitting the nude beach!

And you wonder why no guy will take you seriously.

Hope you don't get sand anywhere uncomfortable.

Who said men don't take me seriously?

Nope...never said that.

They especially take me seriously when I'm naked.

That said, my behind is usually in a comfy beach chair or frolicking in the ocean...no sand accidents whatsoever.

I gotta find that vid of the dancing bear to counter the vid of the gal jiggling her jugs...I know I have it somewhere...a bit more X rated but just as objectifying...I love objectifying men!

 

[Kephart P.E.]

I was talking with one of the senior consultants, and he reminded me that within the next 5-10 years we will see a severe spike in open jobs (not just engineering) to accomodate all of the retiring baby boomers. I fear we won't have enough mid-level engineers to step up to fill those senior positions let alone provide enough support staff (entry & newly promoted mid-levels). Now would actually be the best time to be a graduating high-schooler looking to get into college, because alot of positions will be available as they get their BS and MS degrees...

For reference I am 36 and in nearly every single meeting I attend with clients and contractors, I am very typically the youngest guy in the room. And out of the senior level customer contacts I'd say 80% of those are 55+. So I expect a huge amount of turnover in the coming decade.

But not as much as some people think. I believe many engineers/managers will stay in the workforce in some degree into their late 60's.

We have some consultants that work for us 4-6 months out of the year for example.

 

[Kephart P.E.]

Would think you guys would want to see more women at these networking functions as well

I've been to a few ASME conferences, and the mix is pretty good. Not 50/50, but not 90/10 either. Also, I'm not sure what you are saying here. Are women at networking functions of ill-repute? I work on a job site right now with 5 women, I treat them just like the men on the site and I don't look at them differently. I could care less if anyone is "easy on the eyes", I look at performance and thats it.

That's great. Wish there were more like you around.

I'm in New York and the ratio is not 50/50, nowhere near that. And I'm talking specifically about Civil. Guess saying "engineering" was too broad...in construction and civil, we are under represented. Period.

When i was in school back in the eighties, there were a lot more women in civil engineering than any other branch at my school. I'd say it was probably 33% women compared to maybe 10% in mechanical.

When I was there in the very late 90's it was the same sort of break down. But CEM (Const. Engr. Mgmt) was pulling lots of women, so maybe that is why there wasn't much increase in female ME's

 

[XOXOXO]

I was talking with one of the senior consultants, and he reminded me that within the next 5-10 years we will see a severe spike in open jobs (not just engineering) to accomodate all of the retiring baby boomers. I fear we won't have enough mid-level engineers to step up to fill those senior positions let alone provide enough support staff (entry & newly promoted mid-levels). Now would actually be the best time to be a graduating high-schooler looking to get into college, because alot of positions will be available as they get their BS and MS degrees...

For reference I am 36 and in nearly every single meeting I attend with clients and contractors, I am very typically the youngest guy in the room. And out of the senior level customer contacts I'd say 80% of those are 55+. So I expect a huge amount of turnover in the coming decade.

But not as much as some people think. I believe many engineers/managers will stay in the workforce in some degree into their late 60's.

We have some consultants that work for us 4-6 months out of the year for example.

Good point.

I know a gentleman who finally retired from bridge engineering in his 90's. They flew his family in for his retirement party.

 

[XOXOXO]

There are rules of etiquette...I'm afraid pics are not allowed.

rlyflag:

That's gonna hurt in the morning...

 

[PE-ness]

^That's what the girls always say to me....

 

[PE-ness]

Mine's a bit of a burden to carry around everywhere I go...if you get what I mean.

Are we related? I went to the doc recently for knee problems. I'd been having a lot of knee pain and bruising. The bruises were always shaped like an upside-down mushroom.

I have no idea what could be wrong.

 

[PE-ness]

Incorrigible!
My dad used to say if he were a woman, he'd walk around with a mattress strapped to his back.

If I were a woman, I'd never leave the house.

If I were a giant penis, I'd never leave the house, either.

I never leave the house.