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[–] 12 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

For structural analysts it's very important.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    I think the joke is you don't understand enough physics to make that your gig, so you go engineering as the backup plan. Source: am IT, we're everyone's backup plan when their initial goals fall through

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    As a former engineering student who now works in IT.... I resent your comment.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    About to graduate in physics and I've definitely scrolled through IT job postings when anxious about not getting a PhD position

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i didn’t get a degree until I was almost thirty, from an online college at that. I’m a complete idiot and somehow earning a bit over $200k a year in the Midwest at forty years old. Sometimes I have to meet with people and I’m like man, just let me back in my hole, wtf am I doing here, I can barely understand what these people are talking about let alone process any of the shit they are saying. I talk, ask questions, sometimes get answers I can understand but always make an idiot out of myself but I keep talking. Everyone says it’s better to keep your mouth shut and be assumed to be an idiot instead of opening your mouth and removing all doubt but I swear I’ve made a career out of being an idiot. If it wasn’t for IT I would be cleaning shit off guys dicks in a brothel somewhere to feed myself.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have worked with guys who got physics undergrad and mech E masters. They are both awful engineers who don't really get it. I take this joke too personally because I know it's bs from experience.

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