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If you were not an engineer, what would you be?

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This started off as a question that some of the element14 Community team and I were tossing around the other day. Not being an engineer I would only really be guessing. So why not just ask you directly...  if you were not an engineer, what would you be?

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  • A very interesting question.

     

    After my disability, I had to face that problem a while ago and for me the transition was easy to do.

    I became a writer.  Writing enables me to still do some technical research, analyze technology and document my understanding of what I learn.

    I also moved into writing historical documents based upon a life long interest and collection of data.  So I can now address both of my two passions, history and engineering, and still enjoy dabbling, without the daily grind of actually doing engineering for a living.

     

    I have seen a lot of engineers reach retirement age and literally have nothing planned.  Sadly some of them did not live very long, because they just missed doing the things they enjoyed.

    I was lucky, my work had reached a point where it interfered with my hobbies, so I had a much easier time adjust, though dealing with the disability introduced its own challenges.

     

    I had considered teaching Systems and Software Engineering, but the disability would not let me consider such a demanding task.

    So doing mentoring here at Element 14 gives me some of that interest back.

     

    So I am very interested to see what others consider career options.

    Who know, I might have missed something important.

     

    DAB

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  • A very interesting question.

     

    After my disability, I had to face that problem a while ago and for me the transition was easy to do.

    I became a writer.  Writing enables me to still do some technical research, analyze technology and document my understanding of what I learn.

    I also moved into writing historical documents based upon a life long interest and collection of data.  So I can now address both of my two passions, history and engineering, and still enjoy dabbling, without the daily grind of actually doing engineering for a living.

     

    I have seen a lot of engineers reach retirement age and literally have nothing planned.  Sadly some of them did not live very long, because they just missed doing the things they enjoyed.

    I was lucky, my work had reached a point where it interfered with my hobbies, so I had a much easier time adjust, though dealing with the disability introduced its own challenges.

     

    I had considered teaching Systems and Software Engineering, but the disability would not let me consider such a demanding task.

    So doing mentoring here at Element 14 gives me some of that interest back.

     

    So I am very interested to see what others consider career options.

    Who know, I might have missed something important.

     

    DAB

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