"Reasons To Go Into Engineering
- It's ten times more fun than being a doctor, a lawyer, a dentist, or an accountant.
- Annoying co-workers can be put in their place with a little computer sabotage.
- Computers don't save work; they just make more work.
- If times are tough, you can always give up purity and make money programming in Visual Basic.
- If you throw in enough technical jargon and acronyms, people will believe anything you say.
- Engineering can serve as both a career and a hobby.
- T-shirt and jeans are formal dress.
- Social skills are optional.
Reasons Not To Go Into Engineering
- No TV shows about gorgeous computer programmers in bed together, unlike legal and lifeguarding professions
- At least one user in 20 believe computers are alive and malicious
- Presenting evidence to the contrary is sometimes made difficult by apparently intelligent and malicious behavior from the computer
- Personal hygiene problems / social disorders considered a sign of someone whose mind is highly specialized and valuable
- Heavy use of computers causes eye/hand/wrist/back injuries
- Relatives, friends, neighbors and others expect you to have a guru-level understanding of their home computer or gizmo
- Microsoft Windows
- Things you learn in medical school do not become obsolete as the human body evolves into a new life form
- Management-imposed deadlines on computer-related tasks are driven by management's understanding of how computers work
- Male/female ratio worse than any other career except "monk"
- Plumbers make more money per hour, and have to put up with a lot less shit on the job.
