[Barry Goldwater]

I find engineering to be a highly rewarding and satisfying occupation. The key to this is to take on the hardest, most challenging work and never let an employer get in your way - take the initiative, start your own business and think outside the box (no cook books!). I have little sympathy for an employee who complains about the work, then takes a paycheck and doesn't move on. The career stinks only because you made it that way and you only get what you negotiate for. The computer simulations allow me to solve bigger, more complex problems. I can design things no one would dare attempt 30 years ago. Any tool is simply an extension of the man using it. If you don't like engineering, seeks another carrer. Life is short so why waste it on something that makes you unhappy.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"Where there is no vision the people perish."

[Dead Dog]

My sentiments exactly. It is our own faults if we become pawns in a corporate ponzy(sic) scheme. We are the kernel of these enterprises, without us there would be no product, so take our talents elsewhere. We can sit on our duffs in a prefab cube and let the Nation turn into a third world nation, or we can do what God had given us talent to do: Create and Innovate!

I found myself looking forward to the end of the day so I could go home and cut the floor out of my dry rotted bathrooms. That is just wrong. Life is to short for this.