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10484736 No.10484736 [Reply] [Original]

Is it really just excel spreadsheets all day?

>> No.10484768

>>10484736
It’s what you make it, you decide your own level of involvement.

>> No.10484801

>>10484768
How do I decide not to do boring bullshit?

>> No.10484808

>>10484736
In my experience, it is mostly spreadsheets if you are in a large company. Sample size of 1 though.

>> No.10484819

>>10484808
And what exactly are you typing in these spreadsheets?

>> No.10484823

>>10484819
All that stuff you do on engineering paper right now. Also the pay is shit.

>> No.10484849

>>10484801
Figure out cool stuff to do that makes things better. Innovate. Don’t do the bare minimum and don’t let people cockblock your ideas.

>> No.10484887

>>10484849
Are you talking about entrepreneurship here?

>> No.10484889

>>10484823
How much do you make?
Also do you still get to make decisions or do you pretty much just calculate stuff?

>> No.10484920

>>10484736
Where the FUCK are folks getting all these people to tie down onto railroad tracks

>> No.10484997

>>10484887
Among other things, yeah.

>> No.10485450

>>10484889
I make $62k in a high cost of living area. When I was picking out an apartment, they told me that if I made $7k less than I currently do that I would qualify for low income subsidized housing. So that was really cool.

>Also do you still get to make decisions or do you pretty much just calculate stuff?
Absolutely fucking not. I have submitted several suggestions that would have made my company a ton of money, but my manager just laughed and shook his head. His justification was that anything beyond the work that you are immediately assigned counts as labor overhead, and thus all R&D should be avoided.


>>10484849
Ask me how I know you're still in college.

>> No.10485656

>>10484736

Depends on the job. There's probably a lot of "excel" jobs out there, but every job I've had has been much more interesting than that. I work in the defense industry now and the work is genuinely interesting and challenging and I actually enjoy my job.

>> No.10485766

>>10484736
Almost every office job is like that.

>> No.10485775

>>10485656
What do you do all day?

>> No.10487217

>>10485775

I design and conduct wind tunnel tests, code a lot of aero models that interface with the tactical 6-DOF simulations, develop tools for the aerodynamics department, help plan flight tests, develop new architectures and methods for aero modeling, all sorts of things. It varies. What matters to me is that it's actually challenging and I get to use what I learned in school while inventing and formulating new methods and concepts.

>> No.10487575

>>10484736
>Is engineering genuinely a dead end?
For very dumb people, yes, just like every other field would be.

>> No.10487590

>>10487217
what the hell? engineers actually do engineery things? i just wanted a job to be depressed at but get paid well