Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Alonzo
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 05:16 pm

  Re: Re: New to this
  By: Alonzo to Nightfox on Fri Apr 25 2025 09:28 pm

 > I could never understand why people just automatically go to college
 > with no idea what they want to study. I knew years before I started
 > college. Maybe some people have money to burn, but I wanted to
 > make every day count. It took me 10 years to pay off my college
 > loans and I would feel foolish if I wasted all of that time and
 > money "experimenting."

My experience is lots of people went there because they wanted a degree, but they didn't care which one, hence they were not sure what to study.

I wanted to get into Engineering because I loved disassembling broken stuff and fixing it when I was a kid. I make it not a secret that I consider myself scammed by The System - I got my degree alright, but soooo much Engineering work is about ensuring compliance with regulations rather than finding creative solutions to things.

I remember a once I was at an RPG party and the electric circuit responsible for the lights went kaput. Rather than cancel the party - everybody was enjoying the game - a friend from Engineering college and I disconnected one of the ceiling lamps from the circuit and ran a cable from an electrical socket into it. The RPG game was saved. The guy told me, as the lamp was turned on, something to the effect of "You know, I am nearly three years in and this is the first time I feel I have actually Engineered a solution".


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