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Do any of you have this urge?
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It's what makes me good at my job.
I thought going into engineering would be a better environment for this kind of questioning. It turns out my toddler-level frequency of "Why?" transcends bachelor level expectations, thus I must pursue even higher education.
Walking into a contract with uncurious junior engineers was frustrating to say the least.
Engineering, in general (not talking about programming) is a super conservative field. It's crazy how many people I run into that are clearly intelligent, but have just been so silo'd into one field that they have no understanding of anything practical outside of their field.
Few things have benefited my career more than my obsessive desire to figure out what went wrong in as quick a time as possible
And few things exercise my mind more wonderfully than emergency mode high stakes troubleshooting
My grandfather was right, I should have been an electrician.
I think electrician is still too mundane for us.
Not when you get to the level of 'The guy they call when the grid goes down' level like my grandpa. The kind of intricate and expansive knowledge needed to address those issues is just the kind of mind fire I desire
He was deeper on the spectrum than me by a wide margin, honestly I have no idea how he managed to be so successful going diagnosed and unassisted his whole life. I bet his wives had a lot to do with it.
At this point he would probably be considered an electrical engineer.
Considering his work for Pratt & Whitney I'd guess he had the certs for engineer but he was also ridiculously proud of the fact he 'came up through the ranks' so identified more as a Master Electrician.
When he heard I went to college for CS he considered it a waste, I guess he grew up in a world where competence was enough. Not like that anymore
Nothing wrong with being a hedge engineer. I have a GED and associates in liberal arts.