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Originally Posted by Iciclehead
I work with engineers extensively and have somehow sired two of them.....
Their mindset is a perverse combination of personal aptitudes needed to be a good engineer (mathematical skills, high sense of the tangible, fact oriented etc) and the education. Engineering education starts from the place that if they don't do their job right, people die....and the engineer by virtue of their stamp is personally accountable. There is also a huge amount of bonding in engineering (read: rampant alcoholism and co-dependent relationships) and embarking on no end of mischief (in my son's case building a potato cannon capable of shooting several hundred metres and then assaulting the nearby military college with it).
Result of this perverse melange is a group of people who believe in their own god-like powers, who bond more tightly than a bunch of Muslims in a pork factory and who presume everyone else is "lesser".....otherwise they too would have become engineers.
Thankfully there are relatively few female engineers to mate with, otherwise the infestation of engineers would eventually overrun human kind. It also explains why female engineers become irresistible to male engineers at the age of consent and remain that way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death.
Longer if it's a warm day.
Dennis
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hahaha, well written, and exactly right on.
the only solution to turning in a test in which at no point did you understand any of the problems, and wrote down only crazyness that no one could follow for 45 mintues, is a whole 1.75 of vodka with friends who did exactly the same that afternoon.
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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
Your notions are a bit antiquated. There are more and more engineering women in the workplace. In my department, we're at about 40% women.
You are right about one thing, female engineers are irresistible. My wife is an engineer. 
By the way, our offspring is an MD.  |
female engineers are irresistible, but unfortunately, i typically find them too logical and rational. almost like the type of woman who is attracted to engineering, is that really really rational and logical one, to a fault.
obviously your millage my vary. that just my experience with them, i've dated 3.
and to the topic at hand, i got some good advice from an older engineer once, he said "to be a good engineer, you have to be the smartest guy in the room, but to be a great engineer, you have make sure no one knows that you are the smartest in the room."