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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Droggelbecher 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, when IT students get those moments they look at construction ads. It's turtles all the way down.

[–] A7thStone 2 points 11 months ago

And when us constructing workers get those moments we say fuck!, but at least we don't have student loans to pay off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

In my experience so far asking the question instead of just fucking everything up by guessing is a huge reason why you get paid what you get paid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Just graduated from college in IT, I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two. I originally wanted to do creative communications but couldn't get past the entrance exam.

[–] pigup 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The absolute worst is when those kinds of engineers graduate but are incapable of thinking about the problems they are designing solutions for.