God fucking dammit. I’m trying to go back to school and I was like “Fuck this cleanroom work, Civil Engineering sounds like it would be a nice change of pace and I’d be doing something good”

Fuck. I gotta get started on something soon before I get too damn old.

Momma and Daddy told me I should be a painter. But, no, I was obstinate and followed my dreams of being an engineer instead.

:shapiro-poplar:

I’ve still yet to hear about a job that isn’t either soul sucking, useless, or shit paying and shit working conditions

not to dox myself too hard or anything but i literally write enterprise software that would definitely still have to exist in some form even in a communist society without regressing in technology, which is about as close as you can get to genuinely meaningful and helpful work in comp sci next to writing software for planes and MRIs, and there’s still so much bullshit to slog through. bureaucracy and excessive meetings about business and marketing that really aren’t that relevant to me writing code, it’s a lot sometimes, and even the parts of my job that aren’t bullshit are still pretty much busy work a lot of the time. anyway i really just want to say there’s more useful disciplines of engineering than building bridges, it’s a little reductive to limit being useful to society to just that, some of us going on the computer guys are still trying to do good work yknow? thank you

The most essential engineering discipline is also consistently the lowest paid engineering discipline.

HUH HOW ABOUT THAT. STUDY STEM™