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Originally Posted by madcorgi

Several Japanese companies require their engineers t work on the factory floor for a year before they start as engineers. Seems like a smart practice to me.

Which is such an amazingly excellent and simple idea. Too bad most American companies don’t have the patience or foresight to do so. The best engineers I have worked with started their career in the blue collar world. Or maybe I’m just biased having started my life in the workforce as a mechanic and construction worker.

It’s not to the scale of some of you, but I’ve been working on my MBA and will finish it next semester (thank God). It’s been up and down in terms of the actual value I feel it has provided, but from a career standpoint I doubt I’ll ever regret it.