Career advice

[Ocean1]

From an engineer...

[007XX]

Nice...

[deanohit]

Bwahahaha, I like it!

[Ixion]

He left out the bit about the saleman telling the idiots that the product will do all sorts of stuff that it won't and was never designed to. Whereupon the idiots demand that the engineer make it do such stuff, and when told it is impossible angrily denounce the engineer as a lier and incompetent.

[vifferman]

He left out the bit about the saleman telling the idiots that the product will do all sorts of stuff that it won't and was never designed to. Whereupon the idiots demand that the engineer make it do such stuff, and when told it is impossible angrily denounce the engineer as a lier and incompetent.

All this (including the cartoon) holds true for software engineering as well.

[Blackbird]

It's certainly happened to this engineer (until I moved to Marketing and condemned engineers)

[Drum]

Sometimes it's like Mr. Adams is watching me work!

[BarBender]

He left out the bit about the saleman telling the idiots that the product will do all sorts of stuff that it won't and was never designed to. Whereupon the idiots demand that the engineer make it do such stuff, and when told it is impossible angrily denounce the engineer as a lier and incompetent.

True.

On the otherhand, I find it funny when engineers think they can manage projects....

...and staff.

[Ocean1]

A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a
particularly slow group of golfers.

The engineer fumed, "What's with
those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!"

The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!"

The priest said, "Here comes the green-keeper. Let's have a word with
him."

He said, "Hello George, what's wrong with that group ahead of us?
Bit slow, aren't they?"

The green-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen.
They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we
always let them play for free anytime."

The group fell silent for a moment. The priest said, "That's so sad. I
think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."

The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist
colleague and see if there's anything he can do for them."

The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"

He left out the bit about the saleman telling the idiots that the product will do all sorts of stuff that it won't and was never designed to. Whereupon the idiots demand that the engineer make it do such stuff, and when told it is impossible angrily denounce the engineer as a lier and incompetent.

Art a member of the Royal Institute Les?

[Ocean1]

True.

On the otherhand, I find it funny when engineers think they can manage projects....

...and staff.

Mutually exclusive personal paradigms, if you’ve got the imagination for one you ain’t got the patience for the other.

[pzkpfw]

Mutually exclusive personal paradigms, if you’ve got the imagination for one you ain’t got the patience for the other.

It's one of the problems with IT shops.

Most managers are IT types who got "promoted" to management.

[Tank]

True.

On the otherhand, I find it funny when engineers think they can manage projects.....

or talk to girls, or run without falling over

[Tank]

It's one of the problems with IT shops.

Most managers are IT types who got "promoted" to management.

That was 'old days' - not the case in professional shops in this day and age. More orientated towards business guys with a solid understanding of IT and its management - Geeks need not apply.

[Jantar]

Then there is the difference between a scientist and an engineer:

A scientist learns more and more about less and less till he knows everything about nothing.
An engineer learns less and less about more and more till he knows nothing about everything.

[Drum]

Said the unpopular Scientist.