@wrong move: I don’t know, time will tell I guess. I’m doing a mixed degree, with some engineering major and a political science and computer science minors. Also, in the US, most of the business people did engineering in the undergraduate days- engineers are still really respected, at least in silicon valley, where I study.

@gevo: that’s true. I’m a “pretengineer”… if there was nothing else in the world, I would study political science. But I want to pick up engineering skills so I can create stuff, so yeah

@saf too: and police as well!

a possible scenario for you: you will one day make it to be a top guy in SPF and claim to have revamped many of the computer systems and successfully led the police force into a new high-tech era. and you will say it’s all due to your engineering training. that’s nice, but my bugbear will be that you will be just another of the thousands of technocrats who only “manage” and “lead” but have zero experience in actually building real systems.

there are too many of such people around. even in the US, you see many business people bossing over the true technical talent. we see less of the likes of edison, jobs, gates and moore.

talented engineers should wake up and pick up some business skills. hire the MBAs and kick their rears to make money for you instead of the other way round. but i don’t see this happening anytime soon. it’s not in the nature of engineers to do that. we are nice people.

Part of the attraction was being able to actually build useful things, rather than just analyze it and shift stuff around. So maybe engineering ain’t dead just yet, at least for me…

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