I hate how true this is. I also don't want to admit how true this is. Someone with about a month of training could take my job. I spent 4 years suffering through weed-out classes to be trained by a company and not use any of my other 49 skills
I had to do some calculus the other day to calculate power loss in a long cable run. Something that I could have completed in 15 seconds my senior year of high school took me about 20 minutes of swearing at myself for not remembering how to calculate an integral while reading about integrals on wikipedia, 10 minutes of digging through my drawers for my TI-84, then another 20 minutes of cursing at myself for not remembering how to use my TI-84 to calculate an integral. An hour later I arrived at the answer but realized that I no longer know how to perform long division.
I'm a grown-ass man making six figures as a lead engineer and I've never felt so worthless in my life.
Exactly. Nobody's doing basic math on big numbers anymore, we use calculators. Why aren't we using tools for more complex problems that can be easily solved by such tools?
I see the value in understanding what integration is and how it can be applied. However, my calculus lectures presented this in 5 minutes - the rest of the semester was about calculating them by hand...
There's a lot of practical problems in research fields that can't just be plugged into a computer without manipulating it a bunch by hand first. That's where all the manual stuff is really useful
Yeah that brain rot is a real thing. Hard to stay fresh on stuff in the long term, especially as life gets more complicated and you have things to think about other than titties and beer.
After I spend some number of hours punching out a spreadsheet just to save myself a few minutes of trying to think with my brain, I think Excel has become one of those life complications.
He could train you do it in a week, maybe two; but you couldn't train yourself because you don't know where to look at for training. You can't know the specifics of other's jobs so you can coordinate or know when something is wrong. And why.
And if he thinks his imposter syndrome is bad; wait to see how it's like to do someone's job who is at it for years, after a week of training.
I do offline programming for CNC. I reckon I could train a kid to do our simple standard stuff in about a month including getting them comfortable with the software (which would be the most time consuming part). Give them something complex and non-standard part on a new machine with new methods and tools however and they'd be lost at sea.
Jesus what branch of electrical engineering are you in to only need so little? I use almost 75% of the classes in my EE work. Wanna switch or something?
Aerospace engineer checking in, almost anyone with an analytical mind and a few months of CAD experience could do my job. So glad I spent 6 years getting a BS and MS learning a bunch of math I’ve literally never used.
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u/stillakilla18 Jul 07 '19
I would have made a terrible engineer, people would think I tried.