You might be an engineer if:
You might be an engineer if:
Everyone else on the Alaskan Cruise is on deck peering at the scenery, and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room.
Buying flowers for your girlfriend or spending the money to upgrade your RAM is a moral dilemma.
You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
You can't help eavesdropping in computer stores... and correcting the salesperson.
You've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator.
You chuckle whenever anyone says "centrifugal force".
You have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically.
It is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer.
You've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.
You consider ANY non-engineering course "easy".
The blinking 12:00 on someone's VCR draws you in like a tractor beam to fix it.
The salesperson at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
You have any "Dilbert" comics displayed in your work area.
You have never backed up your hard drive.
You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.
You are always late to meetings.
You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting.
You can't write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.
You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
You know what http:// stands for.
You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys.
You wear black socks with tennis shoes (or vice versa)
You window shop at Radio Shack.
You're in the backseat of your car, she's looking wistfully at the moon, and you're trying
to locate a geosynchronous satellite.
Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 300 MHz Pentium. - Note: They must have meant Pentuim II ;-)
You know the direction the water swirls when you flush
You are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor
You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal
The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don’t work, and you rush up the front to fix it
You can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary
You understood more than five of these jokes
You make a copy of this list, and post it on your door (or your home page !)
trent was 'ere
oh crap.. looks like im an engineer
nearly half of those i can relate to!
Originally Posted by hakhawk
smooth moderator
thats scary, too many of those are true for me.
Ahhh Yes, Ahhh Yes....
Im every one of them but.....
Backing up your hard drive --> I have five servers..why not...
Remebering your annaversary --> three letters P.D.A.
lol...later
aZk.
So true hahaha lol just before reading the last one i was thinking of printing it out and putting it on the wall in the office lol!
3Y3 K4N 5P33K 1337.
i'll side with quick typing but crappy handwriting. thats me all over.
and i love eavesdropping and chuckling at some of the newbie questions i hear at pc / electronic places [that i window shop at]
attn Über geeks, i play Second life. Patrio Graysmark.
Grandpa
lol, engineers "educated beyond their intelligence"
no my quote ok, i can relate to most of them & i have the certificates to prove it.lmao
Rob
Morgasshk
Thats Dr to you.....
Man,
I'm a engineer, but that list looks like it suits computer geeks!
what sort of engineer?
Thats Dr to you.....
Mining Engineer
Projecting
Agreed, Looks like are you a Nerd boy.
I think one thing i can relate to with engineers is they give you a design. Then just as you've completed it, they change it. Another 60 times.
trent was 'ere
I would have said computer?
meh.
I always thought engineers had geekish tendencies. Meh, probably coz I’m studying mechatronics. probably depends on the engineering.
trent was 'ere
There's a mechatronics now?
lol!
Thats Dr to you.....
Bah,
I design underground sections, then spend another half day underground explaining it to people who can't even write their own names!
I usually have to change designs due to operator incompetence.
Oh well.
Yeah, mechatronics is a mixture of electrical, mechanical and computer systems engineering. Basically robotics.
Projecting
Well give me a job and in return I'll spell my own name and do pearler drafting for you. I've been doing underground/above ground electrical, civil electrical stuff.. But cads cad. I can move any way I want.
id say so too.
what course exactly?
What do you mean what course? I’m doing a bachelor of mechatronics at university of QLD. it's been running for 4 or 5 years now i think.
I dunno, maybe I am a geek. I thought the list of things was pretty funny. Like, “Everyone else on the Alaskan Cruise is on deck peering at the scenery, and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room” and “You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work” are a perfect description of me.
Donating Member
well since we are into self flagellation....
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Attention Women! Here are some reasons why you should choose an engineer for a husband over other professions.
Doctor
Supposedly, all women are after a Doctor, so don't expect your relationship to last more than 5 years. Eventually, he'll run off with some nurse from his office, or one of his young women patients that is pretending to be sick. He'll wait until you are stuck with a few kids to do this. This is not a problem with your Engineer. He had a hard enough time meeting you. It is unlikely, he'll ever meet another woman in his profession.
Lawyer
(a) You seriously expect an honest, trusting relationship with someone who gets paid for lying? Once again, this is not a problem with your Engineer. He doesn't have enough social skills to lie convincingly. (b) An additional drawback is that when the divorce happens you will get nothing.
Sales
See honesty (a), under Lawyer. Plus, he will be travelling to trade shows, etc. where he will be in the company of other equally untrustworthy individuals. Don't be surprised when you get the invitation to show up on the Ricki Lake show. The company that your engineer works at will keep him in a cage, often called a cubicle, until he is ready to go home to you.
High Risk
These are hazardous professions such as Police Officers, Firefighters, Construction Workers, etc. Your husband, if he is not dead by some accident, will like be crippled with a back injury, etc just about the time you are at your sexual peak. The only hazards that your engineer will face is losing his eyesight by staring at the terminal for too long. This hazard actually has some benefits. For one, he will not notice that you are getting older, since he will be a blur. He will remember you as when he first met you, because the memory will be the only way he can see you. Also, when some beautiful girl walks by, and you ask "Honey, were you looking at her?", he'll honestly be able to say that he didn't even see her.
Teacher
The only reason he entered this profession is so that he could be surrounded by newly post-pubescent girls who idolise him. He'll be in jail soon, and then you'll have to look for another man.
yes we have mechatronics courses here too but they range from advanced diploma to bachelor degree.
i myself next year will be doing an advanced diploma in either mechanical or mechatronic engineering. possibly articulate into bachelor of mechanical engineering: automotive.
Thats Dr to you.....
I wasn't having a go at you personally, you probably know how to use autocad one hundred times better that me. Its a bitch of a program to use, same as Microstation J. We had a draftsman at the last place I worked at and his job was to transfer all the old hand drawings (mostly mechanical stuff) into autocad. Very switched on bloke.
I was just illustrating the point that some people give shit to engineers, when personally they really have nothing going for themselves. Thats what gets to me.
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