>Anon what do you do? >Oh, I'm a nuclear engineer >We work on rather esoteric stuff that the public doesnt really appreciate, but in the long run benefits alot of people and science itself >wow your just like me, I'm a comic drawer!

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Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:19:01 2015 No.7415658 [Reply] [Original]

>Anon what do you do?
>Oh, I'm a nuclear engineer
>We work on rather esoteric stuff that the public doesnt really appreciate, but in the long run benefits alot of people and science itself

>wow your just like me, I'm a comic drawer!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:25:56 2015 No.7415664 >>7415658 >So what do you do? >Oh I'm a physicist >Like Sheldon then. >Haha, yeah I guess Literally every bus ride.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:28:00 2015 No.7415666 >>7415664 This is why I tell people I'm a teacher. It's true enough, and I'm fucking sick of that comment.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:28:16 2015 No.7415667 >Chemistry >Hey can you make meth?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:46:34 2015 No.7415703 >>7415664 >>7415666 I tell other people that Im a quantum mechanic

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:51:40 2015 No.7415711 >>7415664 > talking to people on the bus

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:01:33 2015 No.7415734 >>7415703 > So can you fix my brakes, or what? > No, just your qubits. > Silly Anon, we're not in ancient Egypt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:08:22 2015 No.7415747 >Anon what do you do? >I'm an Engineer >oh cool! Could you look at my car for me? These abominations

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:10:15 2015 No.7415750 >>7415664 >phycisist, riding the bus

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:11:46 2015 No.7415753 >>7415750 It's cheaper than buying a car.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:12:17 2015 No.7415754 >>7415664 I'm lucky that I come from a blue collar family so my EE degree isn't exactly mysterious to them. I've only gotten a "tbbt" comment once when I was doing a freshman lecture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:13:40 2015 No.7415758 >>7415750 It's not like they can afford a car or a bike. What do you expect them to do? Teleport?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:14:04 2015 No.7415759 >Hey anon, what do you do. >I'm a physicist >Oh... walks away

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:29:34 2015 No.7415783 File: 39 KB, 500x301, Meanwhile_at_reddit__32c764867f2ebd7fd4ad1253cff93a1a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >so what do you do anon? Aerospace engineering mustard race >wow like rocket science? Yes lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:34:28 2015 No.7415786 File: 14 KB, 300x199, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7415758

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:49:24 2015 No.7415811 >>7415658 did you know, that there are no programs for nuclear engineers at universities/colleges in germany?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:55:45 2015 No.7415829 ITT: neckbeards wishing people talked to them

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 12:24:39 2015 No.7415978 >>7415658 STEAM, not STEM. The A belongs just as much as the other letters! They are totally the same sort of thing!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:11:35 2015 No.7416133 >anon you're studying engineering right? >no I switched to math >why would you do that? do you want to be a teacher?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:14:00 2015 No.7416140 >>7415978 >STEAM Seriously, what's with this shit? Doesn't STEAM basically encompass everything?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:15:18 2015 No.7416143 >>7416140 there's also STREAM the R is for religion

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:24:02 2015 No.7416149 >>7416143 Also the one for: Science Technology Engineering Arts Math Industry Nature Gardening Law Operations Agriculture Dentistry

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:27:55 2015 No.7416153 >>7416149 I prefer Sociology Journalism Woman's Studies

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:29:15 2015 No.7416155 File: 21 KB, 355x353, 1433529204432.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416149 Nice >>7416140 I think they do it to try to make well-rounded education popular again. Which they should; we've got enough scientists and engineers as it is

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:34:46 2015 No.7416161 >>7416149 okay I laughed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:38:27 2015 No.7416167 >>7415658 >So what do you do? >I'm a Chemical Engineer. >Oh, so you like, engineer chemicals? >...Yes. She was really hot...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:38:31 2015 No.7416168 >what do you do anon? >im an engineer >oh... sorry, i dont date gays

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:41:20 2015 No.7416171

>>7415811
Germany doesn't have real engineering degrees, their "engineering" is like Western technologist diplomas. Don't study engineering in Germany, get a real engineering degree in the UK or do Physics if you must stay in that antifa infested shithole.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:42:39 2015 No.7416173 >>7416167 >Oh, so you like, engineer chemicals? >...Yes. >Cute girl finds cute way to ask you about your job. >Respond literally. Smooth.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:43:01 2015 No.7416174 >>7416140 Retards who don't understand that the STEM term is an immigration thing, not something that is just more prestigious than their worthless finger painting degree.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:44:06 2015 No.7416175 >>7416133 Well do you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:47:07 2015 No.7416181 >>7416155 No, what they should do is to raise the standards stop popularizing college altogether, we're losing enough money as is with all the idiots wasting more than 4 years to finish a worthless major because they fell for the higher education meme.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:54:47 2015 No.7416192 >>7416175 No.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:01:06 2015 No.7416203 >>7416192 Why not? Want to be an academia monkey's slave for half your life instead just to end up teaching more? Or quant?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:11:37 2015 No.7416221

>>7416203
The plan right now is to become an actuary and that's going pretty well, thanks to some decent networking I pretty much already have an internship lined up for next summer as long as I keep my grades up. From there on out I just need to take one or two of the tests and I'll more than likely get a job after graduation.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:21:50 2015 No.7416242 >>7416221 Actuary is a 10/10 career in all honesty, good money+job stability.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:27:56 2015 No.7416252 File: 77 KB, 1920x1080, maxresdefault (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7415664 >So what do you do? >Oh, I'm a Cosmologist >Like a hairdresser? That's a weird job for a guy. What salon do you work at? Every time...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:30:44 2015 No.7416261 >>7416252 God damn, I feel for you anon.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:33:24 2015 No.7416269
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>Hey, what are you studying?
>I'm studying computer science
>Can you fix my computer?
>Sorry, I have no idea about computers
>Don't they teach you anything?
She was right in a way. Still, they should rename Computer Science to Informatics, like in Germany.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:33:33 2015 No.7416270 >>7416252 Just call yourself a physicist.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:33:52 2015 No.7416271

>>7416242
Yeah, from what I've read it constantly gets mentioned among "best" careers. The main complaints seem to be that the work is boring and that it eats up a lot of your social life, but I feel like the people that say it's boring are the ones that weren't interested in the material to begin with and just wanted to make money and the people complaining about the lack of social life just aren't very good with time management. I wish I would have known what an actuary was before I graduated high school because I wouldn't have even started engineering if I did. Even though I went to a fancy prep high school I don't think they really put enough focus on trying to get students to think about their careers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:37:08 2015 No.7416280 File: 78 KB, 338x305, 1437227623083.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416270 I've done that too. >So, what do you do? >Oh, I'm an Astrophysicist >Oh, so you're an astronaut? Have you been to space?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:37:32 2015 No.7416282

>>7416271
>Even though I went to a fancy prep high school I don't think they really put enough focus on trying to get students to think about their careers.
This. There are so many careers that I never knew existed back in high school. I'm still happy with the path I chose, but it would've been nice to be aware of the possibilities

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:41:37 2015 No.7416290

Trying to explain to old school Mexican.family what I'm studying
> ecology
>...? Oh cool
>its wildlife biology basically
>oh like premed!
>no its studying animals and habitats
Then they get worried and ask how I'm going to feed myself. Even my mom asks this routinely. Generations of people who give their lives working agriculture or in a textile factory do not understand the purpose of studying something because you like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:42:34 2015 No.7416294 >all of a sudden everyone on /sci/ is a nuclear engineer or studying nuclear engineering

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:43:11 2015 No.7416295 File: 54 KB, 413x473, 15.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >What do you do? >I'm an economics grad student >Oh, do you know like what stocks to invest in?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:43:50 2015 No.7416297 File: 23 KB, 429x410, 1306228709732.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416280 That sounds a lot better than hairdresser, I'd stick with that one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:45:04 2015 No.7416302 File: 7 KB, 200x195, tumblr_inline_ng6pqdZ8oE1shskg8[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Anon what do you do? >Cash welfare checks and play video games. >O-oh...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:46:57 2015 No.7416307 >>7415783 >implying Aerospace Engineering isn't literally rocket science

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:47:45 2015 No.7416309

>>7416269
Just so you know, 99% of the time somebody asks you to "fix their computer", all you need to do to make it perfectly functional is to toss their important files on a thumb drive, then reinstall the operating system. Retards are always getting 100 different viruses from bad webbrowsing habits.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:50:47 2015 No.7416313 >>7416307 Calling an aerospace engineer a rocket scientist is a bit reductionist. AeroE is much, much more than JUST rocket science.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:08:17 2015 No.7416354 >>7416309 The problem is identifying the important files: these people tend to scatter them all over.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:15:00 2015 No.7416370 >>7416309 >browses 4chan >calls everyone else's browsing habits bad Kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:21:15 2015 No.7416382 >Computing science >Oh so coding? >Yeah sure Though it's not nearly as bad as other posts here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:25:56 2015 No.7416395 >>7416370 Way to out yourself as a rube.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:31:08 2015 No.7416403

>>7416382
I'm trying to get a job either in the financial sector as like a quantitative analyst, or as a programmer doing algorithm analysis or cyber defense.

My friends don't understand why I prefer to work at a temp agency working at warehouses instead of applying for the I.T. jobs they hear about.
>Oh Anon! My company is hiring, they're looking for an I.T. guy to fix people's computers!

I'm too polite to tell them that this is like offering one-of-the-guys-who-designs-cars a job as a mechanic at the local gas station.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:46:01 2015 No.7416445 >>7416403 Can't argue there. I didn't get my degree to help adult children fix problems that I'm going to google anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:47:00 2015 No.7416447 >>7416395 I'm anonymous, faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:48:15 2015 No.7416450 File: 2.64 MB, 400x225, hahahahaha.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7415658 >anon, what do you study >math >[pic related]

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:54:31 2015 No.7416463 File: 56 KB, 574x528, 1342732860513.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7415658 >So what are you studying ? >information systems >so its a government top secret stuff huh ?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:59:10 2015 No.7416475 >>7416450 lol, happens every time if not >>7416133

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:27:23 2015 No.7416545 >>7415658 >Anon what do you do? >I study Biomedical Engineering >So you're like a doctor, right? Why does everyone focus on the "medical" part and never notice the "engineering" one?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:32:51 2015 No.7416559 >>7416295 Well, if you don't what are you studying for?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:54:06 2015 No.7416594 >>7415658 >What do you study? >Mechanical engineering >Wow, you seem like a smart guy, I'm surprised that you would choose to be a mechanic.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:54:40 2015 No.7416596

>>7415667
This, and

>You must be smart.

Also, people who assume that ebcause you have a degree in a field of science that you automatically know everything about every field of science.

>Anon majors in chemistry, he's smart
>Is swine flu going to be a threat? Do you think we should keep the smallpox samples? Is flu vaccine worth getting?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:55:02 2015 No.7416598 >>7416313 JUST

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:00:10 2015 No.7416610 >>7416545 Because everyone knows you're not real engineers now if only they knew that you weren't a real doctor too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:17:02 2015 No.7416641 >>7415658 >What do you do? >I'm studying Computer Engineering >So you program stuff? Every time. Any time you say "Computer" in what you do, it's almost automatically assumed you can fix their computer or program their microwave.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:20:09 2015 No.7416646 >>7415658 >So what do you do? >I just completed a PhD in Mathematics. >Hey! My uncle works in the stock market. He said he's looking for someone like you! He could pay you like $300k starting too!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:23:50 2015 No.7416654 >>7415658 >Anon what do you do? >Oh, I'm a mercenary >Do you work for the masked man?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:25:50 2015 No.7416659 >>7416309 >then reinstall the operating system you need the original windows cds for that, and nobody keeps those

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:29:27 2015 No.7416668 >>7416594 it's true tho, 90% of mechanical engineering students are dudebros that want to work on cars but not getting their hands too dirty

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:40:02 2015 No.7416688 >>7416659 Are you literally retarded?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:50:16 2015 No.7416719 >>7415658 >neuroscience >OH WOW ARE YOU A BRAIN SURGEON? YOU MUST BE SO SMART my mum tells all her friends i'm a brain surgeon because she doesn't understand what i do

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:57:59 2015 No.7416730 >>7416688 I think he's old and hasn't used windows in 15 years.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:00:19 2015 No.7416735 >What do you study? Fluid mechanics >So does that mean you know how to keep my bike seat dry when it rains?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:07:36 2015 No.7416744 >>7416719 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:43:13 2015 No.7416814 >so what do you study, anon? >mechatronics >what is that? >a combination of electronic, mechanical and computer engineering >oh so you know a little bit of everything Theyre kinda correct, but still... Also >oh so you can fix my car/tv/computer

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:47:24 2015 No.7416823 i tell people that im studying electrical engineering because if i say 'computer engineering' they think im doing tech support tbh

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 19:02:47 2015 No.7416844 >>7416735 yes put a plastic bag over it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:17:27 2015 No.7417011 >>7416735 >"oh so you only study 1 aspect of chemical engineering?" >also this >>7416844

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:36:19 2015 No.7417045 >>7416269 would you ask a physicist to pick up a weight?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:43:51 2015 No.7417062 >>7417045 if it was lying on my chest, yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:47:53 2015 No.7417077 File: 200 KB, 1252x1252, zyeezbrah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7417045 Yes, I would ask a physicist to pick up a weight. In fact, I would he insist he pick up weight several times a week, in a variety of different manners.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:50:02 2015 No.7417081

>>7415664
Fucking
This
Every
Fucking
Time

Now I just say I'm a scientist because that's enough for them.

Also the whole smart thing is real. People assume that I have to be some kind of genius. I just like to know how shit works, so I learn about it. Nuff said. Knowing why baking soda makes you belch like a fiend when you have heartburn is interesting to me even though it's basic chemistry.

Also never EVER mention meme/pop scientists around people.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:52:23 2015 No.7417089 >>7416307 There are 3 branches of aerospace engineering and only one of those is rocket science.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 21:49:48 2015 No.7417224 File: 64 KB, 526x526, 1433920563180.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416654

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 22:11:08 2015 No.7417267 >>7416641 This. Although I can fix their computer probably, but have no desire to. It's like if i said I was a mechanical engineer so they ask me to change their car tire for them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 22:29:49 2015 No.7417314 >>7416168 So much wrong with this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 22:32:11 2015 No.7417320 >>7417081 > You must be so smart! Do people not realize how uncomfortable this makes someone?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 22:34:11 2015 No.7417322 File: 258 KB, 1920x2318, engineering circlejer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416168

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 22:36:35 2015 No.7417327 >>7417322 >same joke over and over again

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:12:49 2015 No.7417377 >>7417320 No. No they don't. The worst part is that if you tell them it makes you uncomfortable, they assume you must be depressed or something, and if younger to pass it off you get >But it's true though!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 23:14:46 2015 No.7417382 >>7417377 >>7417320 if it makes your uncomfortable it's your own fault. learn to take a compliment

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:26:05 2015 No.7417946

[A wedding reception; me, 29, friend of the groom; qt, bride's cousin]
>Anon, what do you do?
>I'm a programmer.
>Oh wow, me too!
>Really, what kind of frameworks are you working with currently?
>Like languages and shit?
>Y-yeah.
>Mostly html.
>O-okay.
[few years pass, she added me on FaceBook that day, but we haven't really been talking to each other, when suddenly one day:]
>I lied in my CV for a federal job and now they think I'm a programmer, please help, do you know how to curl? I don't know what it means, I just need to curl for my job.
>Can't you man it?
>Sorry, you've lost me.
>Shell?
>Uh...
>Open up a terminal
>Is that in the app store?
>...
[few weeks pass]
>So like, I have patched curl to NetBeans
>Beg pardon?
>I have patched curl to use it from NetBeans
>I'm sorry, it must be all the drugs I did in kindergarten, but I'm not making any sense of that sentence.
>Runtime.getRuntime().exec("curl");
>How can one person be so underqualified, holy shit.
[few months pass, we're actually hitting it off and enjoying each other's company, love at second sight or something, shut up, don't judge, she was cute]
>So I guess I'm doing your whole fucking project for you
>Thanks; you're such a sweetheart.
>You're welcome, asshole.
[few years pass, we're engaged, and her skills have finally caught up with her job description, when one day out of the blue:]
>Anon, we're pregnant.
>I guess I should have asked for HEAD instead! Hahaha! Ha!
>Haha, that's true.
>Hahaha!
>Heh.
>AHAHAHAHA
>Are you okay?
>HAH WAW
>What's so funny?
>"HTML"... You're cracking me up.

I spaced out and imagined the whole relationship during my friend's wedding. I'm so lonely.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:30:23 2015 No.7417950 >>7417946 >using frameworks how does it feel not to be writing proprietary software at the forefront of innovation?

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:39:31 2015 No.7417966

>>7417950
Mate, my code is actual government policy. The government has literally outsourced to me part of its executive power. If I convince my team to stop committing code, I'm committing treason and conspiracy.

Use buzzwords like innovation all you want, you will never wield executive power.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:45:48 2015 No.7417970 File: 17 KB, 625x626, 1435259853938.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7417966 cool, I work on next gen distributed systems an actual 'programmer', not some code monkey flaunting his negligible position

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:57:22 2015 No.7417978

>>7417382
It's not a compliment because they're actually expecting you to either return the compliment based on whatever shitty field they are doing and think is difficult or to play it down thereby reaffirming the group think bias that normal people are just as smart as all people in STEM.

If you don't do either of these most people will become offended or later tell others you're an arrogant douche behind your back.

These people say the same thing (you must b smurt!) to people studying psychology etc. It's not a compliment, it's anti-elitism. That's why it makes the elite uncomfortable.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:57:42 2015 No.7417979 >>7417970 >proprietary >innovation >next gen Let me guess, you're a bald man working for Microsoft.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:01:08 2015 No.7417984
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>>7417979

>are you some nigger who got outsourced shit code by your nepotistic government and thinks hes the shit because hes surrounded by tech illiterate baby boomers and retard startup college kids?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:02:40 2015 No.7417985 >>7417946 Why would you actually help her you tremendous cuck? She took someone's job and she should come clean. >I spaced out and imagined the whole relationship during my friend's wedding. I'm so lonely You can't even be alpha in your daydreams.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:09:19 2015 No.7417993

>>7417979
Hey come on now, Microsoft isn't that bad. This guy's buzzwords paint him more like someone who does Apple tech support.

>>7417970
So you downloaded hadoop on your mum's laptop, good to know, son.

>>7417985
The real plot twist is there was never a wedding, I have no friends, and I very nearly shit myself every time I speak with women. My life, outside my career, is absolutely worthless. Still, things could be way worse, I could be this big guy >>7417984

Numba One !iMmtcjSytQ Fri Jul 24 09:27:03 2015 No.7418013
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>>7415658
In college
>what's your major
>math
>oh so you're going to be a teacher

Post college
>what do you do
>mostly deal with large data and we analyze it in any way asked
>what was your major
>math
>oh so why didn't you become a teacher?

Everytyme

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:27:20 2015 No.7418014 >>7417993 Well anon, look on the bright side, at least you're not actually a cuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:41:08 2015 No.7418025 >>7418013 >kill them all, its the only way

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:44:24 2015 No.7418028 >>7416598 FUCK

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:45:46 2015 No.7418031

Mechanical HVAC engineer and project manager here.

I design mechanical systems for buildings. No one ever talks about the IAQ, energy efficiency, and hearing and cooling of a building when they are comfortable, but when SHTF I make a lot of money.

Fuck europe and Japan with lack of centralized heating and cooling.

Hurrr durr window AC units and baseboard heating is so amazing!!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:52:47 2015 No.7418039 >>7418028 MY

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 10:26:04 2015 No.7418081 >hey anon, what are you studying? >chemical engineering >wow I heard they make a lot of money! Do you like it or are you just in it for the money? Every time. If I wanted a god damn 300k starting meme degree I would've done petroleum engineering.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 10:47:03 2015 No.7418110 >>7417327 >joke

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 10:51:52 2015 No.7418114 File: 113 KB, 640x640, 1434679924652.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416221 >actuary my cousin is an actuary, he makes good money but he works 80+ hrs/week and has several health problems due to stress

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 10:56:51 2015 No.7418119 >>7418110 right, a meme, sorry

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:01:26 2015 No.7418129 >>7416242 As long as 80-100 hour work weeks for the first 10 years is appealing to you.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:08:47 2015 No.7418233

>what do you study anon?
>Geology
>oh that's pretty GNEISS HAHAHAHA isn't the outside work SCHISTY???!! XD or does it ROCK?!?!?!?!? XXXXXXXDDDDDDDD

>what do you study anon?
>Geology
>why would you sell your soul to the oil companies anon?

The only 2 responses I ever get. Even from my family.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:13:42 2015 No.7418237 >hey, the TV doesn't work. Why don't you ENGINEER something to fix it! >hey you're the math guy right what's 8361749*82.19448484?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:21:51 2015 No.7418243 >what do you study? >math >woah you can get any job you want, 300k starting

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:22:39 2015 No.7418245 >>7415658 >What do you study? >Aerospace engineering >So are you going to be an astronaut? Every. Fucking. Time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:25:52 2015 No.7418249 >>7415786 that's engineers

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:26:14 2015 No.7418251 >>7418243 You missed your chance a while back. >>7416646

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:28:42 2015 No.7418254 >>7418243 >what do you study? >math >woah you must be really smart though not that smart because you chose to study math

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:08:44 2015 No.7418300

>what do you study
>medicine
>cool, hey I have like this black spot like on my shoulders and sometimes my stomach hurts on the mornings, i tend not to care much but you know with all the cancer you know and oh yeah my feet hurt whenever i jump to hard, maybe it's a bone problem? my dad had like hearth problems and the doctor said he should drink milk for the calcium and maybe i don't drink enough milk

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:10:08 2015 No.7418302 >>7418129 And knowing with 95% certainty when all the people you know and love are going to die. Also helping companies exploit people based on probability. And also competing against a bunch of chinks for entry level jobs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:11:16 2015 No.7418303 >>7418254 I've been told "That sucks" or "I'm sorry" before. As if I'm being forced to study math rather than thoroughly enjoying it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:14:01 2015 No.7418312 >>7418303 Well, I would assume most people on /sci/ genuinely want to study math, but most math majors I've talked in real life are just trying to get into the engineering college.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:15:40 2015 No.7418315 >Anon what do you do? >Oh, I'm halfway through med school Then it is either >Ah, I do not belive in medicine cuz BIG PHARMA or >Oh, so, I've had a strange itch today, what was that? Am I ill?

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:17:18 2015 No.7418318

>>7418312
>just trying to get into the engineering college.
I'm not sure how this works. I study math at a university known for engineering, and here you just get into the university and can study in whatever school you choose. You an even swap once, no questions asked.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:18:32 2015 No.7418320 >>7418312 >tfw switched from engineering to math It's a good feel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:26:37 2015 No.7418328 >>7418303 I refuse to believe anybody would say that to somebody about their major with sincerity unless the person already expressed regret about their choice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:29:51 2015 No.7418332 >>7418302 >Competing against a bunch of chinks for entry level jobs Congrats! You have described... all STEM Jobs!!!

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:46:23 2015 No.7418362

>>7418318
You can study anything here as long you have the minimum grades for it and there are extra places, if the programme becomes full (engineering always is) there is a selection process. If you aren't selected they recommend you study math or science and apply again in the next academic year, same thing if you get kicked out of the engineering programme you can study math/physics/chemistry and reapply, but each time you are competing against new high-school graduates for spots too so you need to have a decent GPA.

Needless to say the students who do this are generally idiots who end up failing their freshman math/science classes. So if you're getting comments like "That sucks" or "I'm sorry" it's probably people who are friends with the idiots in this group. Sorry you have to deal with that shit, but on the bright side it pumps more tuition money into your department to cover your stipend.

>You an even swap once, no questions asked.
I'm assuming your uni does also have programme/department specific admision requirements though? I can't imagine they let someone who barely got in for english lit. switch to STEM programmes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:54:21 2015 No.7418374 >>7415658 What do you do? >math and philosophy major Oh, let me tell you about my political views.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:58:26 2015 No.7418377

>>7418362
>I'm assuming your uni does also have programme/department specific admision requirements though? I can't imagine they let someone who barely got in for english lit. switch to STEM programmes.
It's a STEM focused school, so there are maybe 2 or 3 programs which aren't STEM. Truth be told, I don't know much about departmental admissions here because I've been in the same one since I started and haven't considered switching.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 15:07:06 2015 No.7418467 >>7417322 Topu Kekodu

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 15:18:13 2015 No.7418482 >>7418303 I was talking to this girl last night and she said she was thinking of going into a graduate program for math and another friend of mine said "that sucks" I was embarrassed tbh

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 15:21:27 2015 No.7418487 >>7415750 If you live in a large enough city a car is pretty much pointless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 15:25:10 2015 No.7418496 File: 15 KB, 489x380, 1357671963703.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >What do you do? >I'm a Physicist >becomes confused and aks "why?"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:01:16 2015 No.7418550 >>7418496 >I'm a Physicist >cool, so what are ghosts made of?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:32:25 2015 No.7418583 >>7418550 Blowjobs

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:07:03 2015 No.7418636

>>7415658

>Anon what do you do?
>Oh, I'm a molecular biologist.
>So... uh... what do you do?

OR

>Anon what do you do?
>Oh, I'm a biologist.
> Oh, so you save animals and stuff, like the guys from Greenpeace? They're so cool!
>Y-yeah... totally, I love animals, go Mother Earth!

I do love animals, and plants, but I fucking hate people who think every biologist is an ecologist, or even worse, one of those enviromentalist eco-terrorist fucks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:20:51 2015 No.7418654 >>7416252 Isn't "cosmologist" obvious enough?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:26:45 2015 No.7418658 >>7418654 Of course not, when most people hear the prefix "Cosmo" they're probably thinking of "Cosmopolitan" or "Cosmetics" instead of "Cosmos".

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:32:36 2015 No.7418665 File: 59 KB, 985x1024, CCw-CYEWYAALazx.jpg-large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416302 Livin da vida loca

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:33:39 2015 No.7418669 >>7418654 So you study women's magazines?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:34:53 2015 No.7418672 >>7418654 Why call it cosmology? Seems in the same least as astrology. Why not call it cosmonomie?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 17:43:38 2015 No.7418689 >>7418636 >people who think every biologist is an ecologist, or even worse, one of those enviromentalist eco-terrorist fucks :/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:14:28 2015 No.7418703 >>7418233 >why would you sell your soul to the oil companies anon? I lol'd. My uncle's a geologist, he travels all around the world working in different places, it's pretty legit. Working for mining companies I'm guessing. What do you do?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:19:41 2015 No.7418716 >>7418703 I'm still in undergrad, got just one year left. Im leaning towards environmental remediation but I've recently started warming up to petrology.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:14:58 2015 No.7418843 >>7416242 >10/10 >uninteresting soul killing field of work. I'd rather do some obscure shit in pure math that no one but me and a small handful of people care about.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:24:04 2015 No.7418861 >>7417081 >Knowing why baking soda makes you belch like a fiend when you have heartburn is interesting to me even though it's basic chemistry. Who the fuck eats baking soda??

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:27:18 2015 No.7418868 >>7417946 10/10 story bro

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:28:43 2015 No.7418871 File: 9 KB, 174x225, rc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7418843 >do math >well paid are either hard to get or boring as shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:43:32 2015 No.7418893 >>7417946 >even in my fantasies i'm a beta faggot

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 20:06:31 2015 No.7418928 >>7418871 I think that depends on the person though. Personally, I don't want an office job. I could live with being a high school/liberal arts college teacher, and that's not super hard to pull off.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 20:23:52 2015 No.7418941 >>7416181 this we have a trade skills gap, not a liberal arts gap

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 21:28:37 2015 No.7419049 >what do you do? >i-i'm a s-systems engineer >oh, so you can fix my computer right?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:24:08 2015 No.7419130 >>7418861 maybe they want to be toan gladius, god of volcanos

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:32:35 2015 No.7419141

>>7415658
>at house party
>girls chat me up
>hey anon, what are you doing
>I'm an EE
>what's that? do you install electronic devices? can you help me with my old TV?
>I explain them what EEs actually can do
>shallow dumb bitches they are they understand nothing I say and have no appreciation for it
>fuck it, I'm out
>leave with bro and have a great night together - no homo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:50:05 2015 No.7419156 >>7419141 you sound like a faggot, would not chill with also, >engineer >no homo 10/10 made me laugh

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 22:50:13 2015 No.7419157 >>7417081 >meme scientists This is new for me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 00:35:03 2015 No.7419297 >>7419157 Meme + "adjective" is the new meme.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:05:46 2015 No.7419329 >>7418013 are you me?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:18:45 2015 No.7419339 >>7417946 >Is that in the app store? I'm died

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:22:16 2015 No.7419343 >So what do you do? >I'm studying to become a cardiologist >Wow! Is that like open heart surgeries and stuff? >It's more like... Yeah sure whatever

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:27:44 2015 No.7419347 >>7418039 ROCKET

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:33:28 2015 No.7419351 >Anon, so what are you studying? Math and business >Oh so you want to be a teacher? No... Trying to become an actuary >wut blahblablah insurance blah statistics blah whatever >Oh so like State Farm.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:28:31 2015 No.7419396
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>>7415667
Yup, but then I try to talk to them about the actual mechanisms of the reaction. The HI andd phosphorus one that is. I think there's a way to do a reductive amination after coupling methlamine with phenyl acetone, but I'm not sure if that's what they do in Breaking Bad.

My goal is to either inspire chemistry on them or bore them into never asking that question again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 03:41:00 2015 No.7419488 File: 261 KB, 600x400, 1435729250296.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7419351

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 04:02:39 2015 No.7419506 >>7419396 You sound like an undergrad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:17:29 2015 No.7419827 File: 31 KB, 544x517, 3904475-5563521592-36831.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >What do you study? Clinical exercise physiology >So you're gonna be a P.E. teacher?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:22:35 2015 No.7419836 File: 55 KB, 500x500, 1436486829472.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7416167 >engineer chemicals >yes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:16:20 2015 No.7419927 >>7416730 >>7416688 >>7416659 i'm retarded how do you reinstall windows without the install files (i.e. the windows cds)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:21:23 2015 No.7419935 >>7419927 You can download it at microsoft.com and just punch in your key. Or if you have a computer built this century, you probably have a recovery partition.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:35:43 2015 No.7420197 >>7419351 >tfw no one knows what an actuary is

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:49:22 2015 No.7420214 >>7419347 FAGGOT

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:44:34 2015 No.7420307 >>7417946 >fantasising about being beta ladies and gentlemen, the true beta, in his purest form.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 16:02:36 2015 No.7420325

I do devops stuff, I've stupidly tried to explain what orchestrating and automating infrastructure builds entails to a normie before and they end up saying >so you're kind of like an IT guy?

I just tell people I'm a programmer these days, scared one day I will get called out and they will realise I only know ruby and python and my understanding of proper comp sci is limited.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 16:03:14 2015 No.7420327 >>7419506 y-you too..

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 16:06:36 2015 No.7420331 >>7418636 Aspiring ecologist here. Also hate vegetarian hippy peda extremist. Though when I try to explain my major people tend to think of medicine. Then when I say animals they're like "ohhhh a vet."

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 16:40:01 2015 No.7420395

whenever i have to deal with low level STEM babbies like sociology majors, i just make something up and giggle to myself about it later

>algebraic myrmecology
>chronomatic topology
>resonance cascade theory
>reconglobulation theory
>partial differential orbifold renormalization
>quantum loop gravity

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:18:03 2015 No.7420461
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>Uncle asks me for what I do
>EE, specialise in wireless communication
>So have you been learning any languages?
>Oh, English and my native language is sufficient
>You should really study German or something, languages are valuable when you're in communications

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:15:20 2015 No.7420551

-Have dinner with some cool engineers, solve some complex problem somebody has been trying to solve for weeks at a dinner conversation. I really get applied concepts and problem identification.
>We could use someone like you on our staff, here is a letter of recommendation
- at interview
>You are a business major!? I sorry but we need an engineer to solve problems like X.
My different way of thinking is valuable to your company, as I can do both types of work to insure project success. I got a minor in engineering and the solution to X is Y.
>(see the dude thinking over the solution I just provided, then he gets it) That is brilliant! (nearly jumping out of his chair, calmly sits back down) ... What I mean to say is you aren't the type of candidate we are look for. But you are clearly smart and talented, you will have no issue getting a good job. Here a dinner invite to some other engineers, they will give you a good letter of recommendation.

Happens nearly every single time, in some crazy cycle.

Currently working as a day laborer as this small construction group because they would hire me. I now do IT company wide management and full architectural drawings and plans for $6 an hour while my boss insults me. I what I would do to get a job at Walmart, then I'd have more money and free time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:26:01 2015 No.7420575 >>7420551 Why don't you get a job at Walmart then? Its not exactly hard to do

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:30:27 2015 No.7420585 >>7420551 >$6 an hour What the fuck, the Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25 an hour, unless this is just hyperbole. Either way, you are a business major. How do you not have a job?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:32:07 2015 No.7420591 >>7420395 >reconglobulation theory I would not be able to say this with a straight face.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:35:21 2015 No.7420600

>>7420575
Heh... when I got my MSc, I tried to get a job at McDonald's because it paid better per hour than research. No dice, because they were sure I'd get hired somewhere right away and just leave. A year later, I finally found a job....

>>7420585
In the USA, state minimum wages can be less than federal. (And of course, one should not assume that a person is from the USA.)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:42:59 2015 No.7420620 >Hey anon, what's your major? >Neuroscience >Haha so you're going to be a psychiatrist? What's my MBTI type :)?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 18:49:20 2015 No.7420634 >>7420600 That's bizarre. Either way, you did say dollars per hour so it is safe to assume either US or Canada.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:01:14 2015 No.7420661 >tell someone im a computer engineer >later >on you are a computer scientist right? this gets so annoying, nothing against CS though

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:14:08 2015 No.7420692 >>7420661 I don't know in your country but in my third world shithole CE is the same as Cs, except Cs have baby tier math and they don't have physics

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:19:52 2015 No.7420703 >>7420692 There is some overlap between them, but they are not the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:28:02 2015 No.7420713 >>7418245 Always a good laugh

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:30:39 2015 No.7420715
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>>7420575
You think I haven't tried to get a job at Walmart? Both as an entry level employee and as a logistics/business management role.

They loved my idea on how to bring the store to a 95% automation rate mostly using tech they already owned with compatibility to their current supply structure. One of the regional managers canceled one of his appointments to listen to the details on how they could use it for their new small foot print stores they were talking about using in northeastern cities. But still didn't get a job.

>>7420585
You are clearly not familiar with 1099 independent contractor status. It is treated like an outside consultant so you don't count as an employee, and thus don't get the more common legal protections such as minimum wage. So my $6 an hour is legal. If you look at the history of employment and business you will find that new types of legal workers statuses appear after legal protection show up as firms migrate based on what is seen as most profitable.

I think like an engineer, but got a background in business. This makes me very good at getting things done, but it confuses the HR people to no end. I had one company send me back and forth between their engineering department and their business department 3 times. They kept saying you're so smart, but you seem to be more technically inclined. Here is a transfer and recommendation to our engineering department. Then the engineering department would say i didn't have an engineering degree and did poorly in the placement exams, but I was clearly intelligent so they transferred me to the business department. It was 8 months of stress and forms, till they just stopped responding to my emails after 8 in person interviews, one of which they payed to have me fly out to the corporate office.

And don't give me that business major so just start your own business junk. There is a fighting obstacle course on that road that makes the statistician in me feel like playing the lottery is a good idea.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:32:39 2015 No.7420722 >>7420395 >resonance cascade theory I see what you did there and it's sorta funny

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 23:24:47 2015 No.7421034 >I'm a Systems Engineer >Blank stare

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 23:39:40 2015 No.7421052

>>7420715
>And don't give me that business major so just start your own business junk. There is a fighting obstacle course on that road that makes the statistician in me feel like playing the lottery is a good idea.

I am an english major that started my own business and I'm paying the rent/feeding myself/making loan payments. u can do it bro, be posi

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 23:40:14 2015 No.7421054 >>7421034 I'm an engineer and I still would give you a blank stare. Its the most vague title ever. Every engineer works on systems of some kind

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:43:34 2015 No.7421300

>>7417978
>It's pretty challenging at times, but I find it incredibly fascinating, so it's completely worth it to me in the end. What do you do?

Didn't return the compliment, downplay the difficulty, or come off as arrogant. It's not that hard.

Also if you're referring to yourself as "the elite", then people think you're an arrogant douche because you are an arrogant douche.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:50:59 2015 No.7421310

>>7418318
I study at a university known for engineering too, but lack of space in popular programs has limited the transfer potential. For example, to even apply for a transfer into the CS department you need a minimum 3.3 in the three intro CS courses. Which is reasonable, but because of the volume of students trying to transfer in, a 4.0 in the first three courses + >3.5 in the engineering major you're actually in is what's needed in reality.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:52:05 2015 No.7421315 >>7416167 Starting ChemE major this September. I love chemistry and math, I got no idea what chemEs get taught or what they end up being professionally. How fucked am I?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:52:19 2015 No.7421316 >>7418550 aether

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:54:15 2015 No.7421320 >>7416290 Where will you be when the world hits you, I wonder.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:57:18 2015 No.7421321

>>7420715
Why don't you make it explicitly clear that your technical skills aren't as good as an engineers, but framing it so that it shows that you *could* get those skills if you wanted to?

Either that, or downplay the technical stuff if it's really that much of a hinderance until you get the job, then display both skills and start advancing really quickly

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:57:48 2015 No.7421322 >>7416596 The last one requires a minimum of 2-digit IQ. Not a science degree.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 03:53:49 2015 No.7421375

>>7421315
Study Chemistry instead dumbass. You should've researched what the professions are with all that free time you had in high-school instead of wasting it playing video games.

ChemE is a whole other world outside chemistry that you are probably not interested in including a shitton of drudgery classes like law, business managment and finance.

Closest thing there is to "designing" chemicals professionally is pharma or catalyst research which chem majors can get into without taking a ton of undergrad classes completely unrelated to chem.

t. ChemE who picked up the hot chick

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:06:30 2015 No.7421381 >>7421375 >law, business management and finance Why did you feel the need to include these courses?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:25:08 2015 No.7421396 >>7417946 this is great, someone screencap.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:37:19 2015 No.7421403 >what are you studying? >maths >do you're gonna be a teacher?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:40:36 2015 No.7421407 >>7421381 I didn't, the Washington accord did, if your programme doesn't have them as cores (or bundled with engineering/environmental management modules) feel free to post it so I can report your department and have your accreditation stripped.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:46:15 2015 No.7421411 >>7420461 Topkek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:49:10 2015 No.7421412 >>7421403 This one is getting boring, many mathfags end being teachers is not that surprising they'd ask that, your posts are pretty far removed from the topic of this thread.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:08:04 2015 No.7421426
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>>7420551
What he means is he's looking for someone that can get a PE license. You could get engineering technologist type jobs in the manufacturing industry if you have those kind of recommendations, especially look for manufacturing management type jobs and convince them you have business skills and enough technical to manage a shift (ignore the minimum requirements in the job posting, it will engineering bachelor or technologist degrees, ignore this and apply claiming you thought a minor was enough). Most companies who already have a PE do this, because they can usually pay less to fill gaps.

Don't work for jack shit at that construction company, tell him he doesn't want to give you a raise you want a better title so you can have technical experience on your CV.

>>7420585
>How do you not have a job?
Pic related is why he doesn't have a job.
>Dat business obelisk of oversaturation.

>>7420715
>But still didn't get a job.
Jup, they stole your idea and took the credit.

>You are clearly not familiar with 1099 independent contractor status

Big companies are full of dicks, look for medium companies (200-500 employees) with conservative managers who some self-respect and are actually good enough at their job that they need to fuck over young people to make a profit.

You're right you can't start your own business, it's hard as fuck to get investors, people are pretty delusional about these sort of things.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:14:54 2015 No.7421435 >>7421300 >It's pretty challenging at times, What a douche, so you're saying your degree is more challenging than mine? Fuck you elitist asshole! - Living, breathing people

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:16:55 2015 No.7421439

>>7421407
here you go:

http://provost.illinois.edu/programsofstudy/2013/fall/programs/undergrad/engin/mech_engin.html

I'm pretty sure almost every university (at least in the US) has you take general education courses no matter what your program is, so I assume your program has you take courses beyond that for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:17:05 2015 No.7421440 >astrophysics >oh I love the horoscope! there are many cancers out there.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:28:02 2015 No.7421444

>>7421435
I ended it with "What do you do?" - I highly doubt you have interacted with anybody who would think I am making that claim before I even know what their degree is, let alone most people thinking like that.

As long as you're not an asshole or have some pompous tone, people are generally pretty relaxed about things.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:32:07 2015 No.7421448 >>7421444 >"What do you do?" OMG STOP RAPING ME

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:33:28 2015 No.7421449 >>7416153 Lol get in the kitchen if you want womens studies

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:51:02 2015 No.7421462
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>>7421439
Seems pretty standard except you have a shitton of liberal electives for an engineering programme (which usually is only 2 in the freshman year).

Looks like your uni is pretty borderline having lost 2 of your programmes already though, or were they both actually discontinued and you literally only do MechE now? Weird. But anyway it seems you passed your visit already and have full accreditation until 2019.

Anyway because of the elective system the US universities usually gets away with not having all requirements in a fixed programme, because students "could" take them and the actually guidelines are often vague sentences that outlining that students should develop those skills "somewhere during the course of their studies", but most engineering departments do not interpret it as incorporating it into their own modules rather than taking it from other departments (I didn't learn any of that from electives either). You do have econ as a requirement though. Programmes usually have patent law, finance and business management mixed into "engineering management/economics" and design courses etc. Your department might be incorporating it in ME 350 for example, otherwise the accreditation committee didn't do their jobs.

One of my the people graduating with me has a sister doing a finance degree, she was surprised that we did the same shit she spent her senior year on in our eng econ module like DCF and risk analysis in decision making etc. Also bullshit like gant charts, project networks etc. in management.

It's boring drudgery, but the professional engineering brand is expected to know basic finance and management.

>>	OHP Sun Jul 26 05:52:55 2015 No.7421464 >>7416450 >so Anon, what do you do? >I study mathematics >oh, you must love numbers! I was never good at those. >well, the fun parts if math go well beyond numbers >[blank stare]

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:59:40 2015 No.7421473

>>7421464
Can you explain what you mean by this?

Numbers are clearly a fundamental component of mathematics, as a language, and it's different than the way letters compose written language. How is it correct to say math goes well beyond numbers? Any sense of meaning is still numerically based and within a given logical framework.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 06:04:07 2015 No.7421483 File: 273 KB, 579x464, scan40_1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7421476 help

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 06:09:18 2015 No.7421489 I'm an engineer, my brothers a geologist and my other brother is a physicist. Everyone expects us come up with some kind of genius idea between ourselves... Except that 90% of the time we're together we talk bullshit and play games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 06:12:24 2015 No.7421493 >>7421473 geometry

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>>7421489
>Be in ChemE.
>Older bro in medicine.
>Constantly scheming to start a pharma manufacturing company when he has enough influence so he can get GPs to shill brand name drugs on prescriptions.
>Already own a few extra batch reactors for this purpose.

Whatever happened to ambition?

OHP Sun Jul 26 06:55:12 2015 No.7421549

>>7421473
Well, "numbers" (more accurately, algebraic elements) compose around half of mathematics. You have a special duality between things that are "algebraic enough" and some corresponding type of geometry or geometric object. So, if I work in a C* algebra (using generalized numbers, to some extent), I can say, "fuck it," and flip over to a corresponding compact Hausdorff topological space. If I am tired of my commutative ring, I can go work in its spectrum instead.

A lot of modern mathematics steps away from just studying numbers, and instead studies the most general case, so that results affect numbers as well as other mathematical constructs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 08:11:08 2015 No.7421682 >>7421476 This was exactly my face when I read his comment. That comment is definitely the comment of a fool.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 08:18:58 2015 No.7421691

>>7421682
I have a decade or so of ignoring and somewhat rejecting mathematics behind me. In my early twenties and only now trying to learn more about, there's a lot to think through and attempt to eihe frame within existing frameworks, or expand those frameworks to encompass it.

It doesn't come together cleanly, part of me still thinks most applications could likely be done more effectively through other means. I don't quite know if there's a meaningful difference between that and mathematics, yet. You oughta' ask yourself why you feel the need to be so harsh about it. It's quite a primal response.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 08:45:08 2015 No.7421722

>>7421691
How much mathematics have you rejected?

Depending on how much math you know, going through some physics would be the best way to go about it. I always viewed the mathematicians as people who largely just explored without any desire for an application in the sense you're thinking of, and then at some point it gets used physics for a really cool application. I think that might help you appreciate the math more.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 08:53:42 2015 No.7421737

>>7421722
Man, caffeine really fucks with my head. I check for coherence and it still comes out hacked together fragment sentences.

>How much mathematics have you rejected?
My present understanding is probably around a sixth grade level with a patchwork of algebra and basic calculus somehow layered around its peripheries. Geometry is lost to me, I can no more remember how to derive a hypotenuse than I can calculate the volume of complex shapes. That would need to be relearned.

I thought everything was better modeled in novel ways relative to the present task, and that individual logic and self made systems were ultimately better, more efficient, and more accurate. I've made it work until now, but whether it is truly so, I do not know. I want to write a fluid dynamics simulation though, so I do "plan to" (and plan to and plan to) learn more about physics. It probably is a good way to learn.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 09:31:05 2015 No.7421768 >>7419141 "Do architects work at construction? Same thing" there you go, easy to understand

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:49:41 2015 No.7421873

>>7418300
>be tripping balls with friends innawoods
>friend of a friend learns I'm doing medicine
>Shit anon, my girlfriend had anorexia, what should I do about that, should I go talk to her about it or what and I have schizophrenia when can I take pot again and now I...
>fuck man I can hardly keep reality from falling to pieces right now I can't answer your fucked up psychological issues

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 12:09:50 2015 No.7422040 >>7421543 That is brilliant.

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