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Would you encourage your children to become Engineers?

cstanton

Or perhaps they have naturally gravitated towards it themselves?

Some say if you have the tendency for engineering, technology, the sciences, the 'knack', then you'll gravitate towards it - but as an Engineer or perhaps a practical or technical Maker yourself is Engineering a career or hobby that you've encouraged? Or did you find that they naturally picked it up?

Or would you actually prefer they steer clear of it and why? What potential pitfalls from your experience would you advise against or to prepare for?

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  • I like the Dilbert video. My Mum tells a story of when she discovered I had the "knack".  I didn't think anything of it but she noted it. We had a house with no weather stripping and ice would build up around the doorway, sometimes freezing the door shut. I used our Electrolux vacuum cleaner to  defrost the doorway. This machine allowed the hose to be connected at the inlet for vacuum or at the outlet for a blower. I used it as a blower - the heat added by the motor made it a warm air blower. This was long before hot air hair dryers were common.

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  • I like the Dilbert video. My Mum tells a story of when she discovered I had the "knack".  I didn't think anything of it but she noted it. We had a house with no weather stripping and ice would build up around the doorway, sometimes freezing the door shut. I used our Electrolux vacuum cleaner to  defrost the doorway. This machine allowed the hose to be connected at the inlet for vacuum or at the outlet for a blower. I used it as a blower - the heat added by the motor made it a warm air blower. This was long before hot air hair dryers were common.

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