Replying to mint #wimint that was my original plan. practicaly dropped out of high-school by senior year. only took one class, ap compsci. spent most of my time doing a small internship and trade school for IT/sysadmin. hell went to uni as a IT/sysadmin major at first. (an even more useless degree as you like never need a degree in IT) had planned to take A+ and Net+ instead of uni
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 For me, a degree is teaching you how to learn and having a course on the intricacies of gitlab or docker would be pointless to me because you're missing the fundamentals and just becoming a mindless drone to execute work. And then a master's or phd teaches you autonomy on how to teach yourself how to learn
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 I'm either going to be a research scientist back at my school and hang out with Mint, or I'm going back to the navy and I can say hi to Spooky once a month when I go to DC
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it It is usually torturous
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby I sorta had this issue where I was not being given any work to do, but then my boss would complain that I never do any work and I was just stunned at what I was meant to say to that.
Replying to Garbage #garbageatgaming Do you guys all live in the WKUK Stapler Factory Sketch or is that just a subsection of the US economy
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Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby Well, my company did do a lot. I just specifically had nothing to do. It was a really weird situation where my company works with "captive shops" to get work done and my company provides the captive shops with engineers. Half the time, the captive shops were NOT receptive to engineers coming in and telling them what they're doing wrong though, so it's just kinda awkward, especially as an entry-level engineer. (edited)
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I have a friend doing the same thing, huge engineering consulting company in California
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood I have stopped short of saying it to work but our 20+ person team is mostly solutions seeking problems, and they are largely personal projects with enough lipstick to look work-related.
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood Example: Customers ask vague questions. It takes us a long time, sometimes nearly an hour, to guess what they want. Some retard (he's not he's just not being wise) says "Here's my AI project to speed up the guessing process." I'm like... why not ask the customer to clarify AND in the proces soft train them to ask better questions in the future? Nah. The AI project will fix it.
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I will say, as someone who has worked jobs where I'm told to "watch paint dry" and get paid for it It is usually torturous
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 Yup. I worked a factory job where I would take turns on an airgun putting nails into a wooden board. Literally, I did 1 nail, passed it off to the other guy, he did 1 nail, and he passed it back to me.
