October 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[Orchid PE]

fhsgfrtdhy

jksletetf?

 

[Master slacker]

WEPJFJOEF!

 

[Orchid PE]

WEPJFJOEF!

Don't you yell at me.

 

[JayKay PE]

I shuddered a little bit, as I read this. Those classes represent the two lowest grades in my entire undergrad degree... Now, it should be noted that the math department at my school was the devil and really had it out for engineers, so the upper-level math classes that engineers had to take were brutal.

Math department at Stony Brook...was interesting.  I took a normal math class, not a 'engineering' math class, so the whole class was theory-based taught by a wonderful Turkish man who had very broken English.  As he was, "If you can do equation with letter, why worry about number?".  I liked working out transformations that took multiple pages of neat-handwriting to solve.  Made me feel like I really worked hard and understood what was going on!

But you? You wanted to do more diff eq...that’s pretty hard stuff right there. You have to be a lot more talented than you give yourself credit for.

More talented in math than in engineering...not going to lie, once I get some debt paid down and I can figure out a 'comfortable salary' I might not do engineering?  Or I might, gasp, become a teacher like the rest of my family.  That would be a semi-shocker, but, not going to lie, I wouldn't mind teaching?  

 

[JayKay PE]

I've thought about starting a farm, and then eventually quitting engineering once the farm is up and running. I read Start Your Farm by Ellen Polishuk and Forrest Pritchard, and from what I gathered you either must a) inherit farmland, or b) deal with leasing land from land owners. Also, you have to a) be a good salesman (I'm not), b) be good at social media (I'm not), and c) deal with not ever being able to make a lot of money.

Idk. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to be a farmer and quit the 9-5. There are actually some people here at work that raise cattle on the side, but they own land.

Depends on what type of farming you are going for.  Just to feed you and your family/live off grid, wholesale?  Small batch, etc, etc.  I watch a homesteader on youtube who makes me happy.  But I think he was a carpenter before he started the journey, so it made building the goat shed and everything a little bit easier.  Mostly he uses the farm for all the family's food/heating/etc.  Not sure if he sells anything.  Plus I think the wife works a semi-okay job, so they have that to fall back on if things get really rough.

 

[JayKay PE]

TRIPLE POST

*edit* yes!  Top to avoid doing a double post!

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Neato! How'd you learn to do that?

"OTJ training" mostly. My tree required a lot of different methods to discover everything and I spent a lot of time figuring out the methods myself. There diy geneaology guides are written for a different generation with "different" (read:ancient) technologies and were usually written at such a high level as to not be particularly useful. Took me a couple years to get my tree fully fleshed out as far as paper records would allow. But I got so good at it along the way that I can now give people fully fleshed out trees in a matter of days.

Genetic genealogy is usually misunderstood. It's just another tool in the toolbox, but people misuse or misunderstand it all the time. It's really best when used as another confirmatory method.

 

[SNAPE/SMOTT PE]

trust me, you don't want to be an astronaut. I know way too much about aerospace safety, and NASA internal governance and ethics to trust them with life and death decisions.

That’s what I hear. I’ll just sign up for this space force thing.

I can definitively state that I did not want to dress like Britney Spears, ever.

Ditto!!!!!!

 

[RBHeadge PE]

architorture

Just noticed the spelling there. This is a new one to me! I will share this with my cube neighbors (literally surrounded by architects).

That was the standard name for it at Georgia Tech, even some profs called it that. I've heard it used at other schools and thought it was a universal saying.

 

[SNAPE/SMOTT PE]

Spam, the other pink meat (like McDonald’s food stuffs).

Ugh, I see these ads for McRib. How can anyone eat that?!!! Apparently a bunch of people do.

 

[SNAPE/SMOTT PE]

My current work site does have a bunch of pyrophoric stuff, so... 

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

My current work site does have a bunch of pyrophoric stuff, so... 

Neato!

Also, SPAM.

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

I'm curious, RB, what else have you done?

Same with all of you? Like what jobs have you had before you were an engineer (or while you were an engineer if you have a side hustle)

I've work in half a dozen retail stores or so (including Sears, Payless, and Christopher &Banks), worked in the dishroom in the dining hall in college then switched to catering (which is partially how I paid for school - plus summer jobs & my mom's GI Bill), tutored, was an RA

First job was as an office summer hire for the 48CES (Air Force civil engineering squadron) where my main task was to file things and break the copier.  I had a similar job the summber beofre my senior year of HS.  Then I went to college, where I worked at Taco Bell, also in the costume shop of the Theater Program, and once I quit the Bell, waiting tables at more places I care to think about.  After I graduated with my Architecture degree, I worked for the predecessor of Nelnet, processing student loans.  It was a basic data entry job that paid crap.  Then I moved to the phone company, where I did technical support for the internet side of things.  Best part about that was I got paid pretty well, and if I had to work holidays (I usually did since I lived far away from family) I got paid triple time, plus night time diferential. Then my boyfriend got a job 7 hours away, so I quit my dream job and moved with him.  Once we were settled, I got a job at an architecture firm, where I worked for 5-6 years, then decided to go back to school to get my engineering degree.  While working full time. During this time I also worked in a materials lab 8 hours a week. One of my class requirements for engineering was an internship, so I quit my full time Architecure job to be a summer intern at an engineering firm, which worked out pretty ok, since I am still there now.

My life goals as a child are were from about 7-10, I wanted to be the second best lawyer in the world (you know, in case I needed to hire the best), then from 10-20, I wanted to be an architect.  Then I decided that wasn't the right fit, but I was almost done with school, so I said screw it and graduated rather than change degrees.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I've thought about starting a farm, and then eventually quitting engineering once the farm is up and running. I read Start Your Farm by Ellen Polishuk and Forrest Pritchard, and from what I gathered you either must a) inherit farmland, or b) deal with leasing land from land owners. Also, you have to a) be a good salesman (I'm not), b) be good at social media (I'm not), and c) deal with not ever being able to make a lot of money.

Idk. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to be a farmer and quit the 9-5. There are actually some people here at work that raise cattle on the side, but they own land.

We have 1.17 acres which is plenty for me. The dream for me is to grow heirloom chili peppers, avocados, and hops. Probably not a lot of money in that, but as I said, it's (one version of) a dream. LadySquare wants livestock (chickens, sheep, and goats, I said no to horses and cows), but I don't think we're financially ready for that.

 

[leggo PE]

I didn't grow up with a ton of jobs. I was a babysitter from ages 12-16, then studied abroad for my junior year of high school. The summer before college, I worked in the office of a disfunctional local grocery store, doing admin and accounts payable/receivable stuff. I did this the summer after my freshman year of college, too. I did an intensive language study program the summer after my sophomore year of college, then studied aboard my junior year, which messed up the following summer. During my fourth year of college, I tutored math and my super senior year, I was a grader for a lower level civil engineering class. Then I got a job at VTrans (Vermont Agency of Transportation) in their structures group. I worked there for 9 months before switching to a private firm. I worked there for two years and then moved back to CA and have been at the same private firm ever since.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

I'm curious, RB, what else have you done?

Same with all of you? Like what jobs have you had before you were an engineer (or while you were an engineer if you have a side hustle)

I've work in half a dozen retail stores or so (including Sears, Payless, and Christopher &Banks), worked in the dishroom in the dining hall in college then switched to catering (which is partially how I paid for school - plus summer jobs & my mom's GI Bill), tutored, was an RA

I scrolled back because this is an interesting conversation!

I worked for Starbucks for ten years, you can call it my first career if you want. They had me on the manager track but my body couldn't handle the physical requirements of the job. Worked various side jobs while I was there, too. Went back to community college the last two years I was at the 'bux, then quit most of the way through my first year at uni. I then worked as a grader for the Electrical Engineering dept, and I worked at the front desk in the Mechanical Engineering dept. Then started where I am now after graduation. Still here, 4.5 years later. 

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Went back to community college the last two years I was at the 'bux

Community college is the best!

 

[leggo PE]

What did I want to be as a kid?

When I was a young kid, I wanted to be a doctor. That stuck for me until I was 10 or 12, and then I didn't really know what I wanted to be. I went to school for engineering because I liked and was good at math. I've mentioned it before, but I started as an environmental engineering major, because I thought it could get me a job in nature. I didn't really get what environmental engineering was at the time, and then got to college and switched to civil engineering after my freshman year. I didn't settle on structural until I took my Structures I class. I found it challenging but really engaging.

I still find it can be challenging, and somewhat engaging.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I found it challenging but really engaging.

I still find it can be challenging, and somewhat engaging.

*looks at structural calcs* (by consultant)

I definitely don't have the brain power for structural.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I do love how neat and tidy the calcs are though.