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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!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.
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?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.
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.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.
"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.Neato! How'd you learn to do that?
That’s what I hear. I’ll just sign up for this space force thing.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.
Ditto!!!!!!I can definitively state that I did not want to dress like Britney Spears, ever.
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.Just noticed the spelling there. This is a new one to me! I will share this with my cube neighbors (literally surrounded by architects).architorture
Neato!My current work site does have a bunch of pyrophoric stuff, so...
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.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
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.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.
I scrolled back because this is an interesting conversation!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
Community college is the best!Went back to community college the last two years I was at the 'bux
*looks at structural calcs* (by consultant)I found it challenging but really engaging.
I still find it can be challenging, and somewhat engaging.
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