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there’s something very funny and telling to me that the ‘world’s best engineering master race’ has changed job/company multiple times in this forum and still pisses and moans about their mind numbing and apparently menial and meaningless drudgery. it sounds great !!!!

“woah son i helped develop the cross hairs on a submarine periscope!”

ok grand papa! thrilling job.

Last edited by uziq (2022-08-31 16:44:58)

uziq wrote:

there’s something very funny and telling to me that the ‘world’s best engineering master race’ has changed job/company multiple times in this forum and still pisses and moans about their mind numbing and apparently menial and meaningless drudgery. it sounds great !!!!

I've had three different jobs in 18 years, pretty normal TBH.

“woah son i helped develop the cross hairs on a submarine periscope!”

That would be one more creative thing than you've done.

Mousewheel's like 30% out on my G600 mouse. Luckily I have two spare from a sale if it's not something that'll fix with cleaning (learned my lesson with a previous mouse that was no longer available). Took me about a day to realize that I didn't somehow accidentally find and trip a mwheel sensitivity setting with a keyboard shortcut.

I think the mouse wheel is what failed last time, but the rubber hadn't even worn off the sides yet on this one.

Will probably keep the spares boxed and use a regular old mouse until I start playing space sims again.

you work on large government contracts that take multiple administrations and have long project deliveries – just the sort of long-term project planning you say is impossible in a democracy, apparently.

the idea that anyone who isn't working in a similar niche to you is doing a job where 'the outcomes don't really matter' is just your usual arrogance. there are types of engineering, particularly software engineering and electrical engineering, as i alluded to in my first post, which are much more relevant to your average graduate nowadays and which have ridiculously quicker turnaround times.

i mean, think about what you're saying. if a software engineer took 5 or 10 years to deliver on a project, that would be retarded. do you know how fast that world moves?

the timescales probably make sense in client industries that are dependent on state largesse, like yours, where delays and expensive fuck-ups and political quagmires can be factored in to the usual operating cost of things. that isn't going to pertain at Google or a SV start-up, dilbert.

Last edited by uziq (2022-09-06 03:17:58)

never mind the fact that i also said the best way to get a payrise or career advancement, more so today than ever, is to switch jobs in a reasonable time-frame. that's not tantamount to absconding and leaving 'before your fuckups became apparent'. lol ffs.

it's amazing with what arrogance you dole out this advice. what have 3 jobs in 18 years got you? you're still not in the management suite, are you? still being bossed around and frustrated on a weekly basis by people you think are inept, putting up with colleagues and peers you don't rate, yada yada. if i were a young graduate, i'd stick with the advice to know when to move on and bargain upwards more often than '3 times in 18 years'. you're not a great advert for career advice, tbh. you seem to have hung around on internet forums moaning about your stalling workplace conditions for 2+ years too long for each job, so far as i can see.

knowing when to call it quits or negotiate upwards and/or outwards is a valuable career skill. like networking. another thing i suspect you aren't quite the grand doyen of.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Projects which to you might seem to have come out of nowhere often have been years in the making, years to develop the science, years to develop the technological building blocks, years to develop working processes, years to scale everything, years to actually create and tool up a working product and presto the ipad came out of nowhere in the blink of an eye.

Govt project planning is typically too slow and disastrous.

i'm not talking about the ipad though, am i, or once in a decade paradigm-changing tech? the vast majority of young graduates in engineering-related disciplines today are doing compsci, EE, or programming. the generational mantra is 'learn to code', not 'learn to design naval radars'.



sorry if that makes you feel precious about your own career. i'm not denigrating anything about your own project lead times: i'm saying that it's not the NORM today.

i have a british friend who works in an industrial design company here in korea, which is obviously a hotbed for it (monitor panel tech and the like). i can guarantee you that the average project at his company and average work contract is 1/3rd what it is in your particular niche.

and this is excepting the entire discussion about the fact that permanent contracts, like generous pensions and retirement packages, are going the way of the dodo. hence, again, why i said it hasn't been the norm for the last couple generations of graduates. most companies' HR departments frankly prefer short-term and casualized workers. engineers or not.

And the bulk of my wealth creation has been outside work, so I don't care too much really.

yes, well done, live-at-home warren buffet. you should write a trading guru guide and self-publish it on the Amazon store. 'don't pay rent or have a mortgage for 25 years and graduate in a system where all education is free'. you're a trading superstar!

Last edited by uziq (2022-09-06 03:35:26)

you'd think so, yes, i mean it seems like common sense: but no.

you know full-well that management are capable of considering most workers as interchangeable and scuttling progress and stymying projects with HR fuck-ups for years. i've been in a company situation myself where project management has stalled for 6+ months due to staff turnover issues. this doesn't only affect engineering, believe it or not: you're not the only keepers of the secret flame of 'deep skills', dilbert.

the HR and finance side of business are still beholden to ideas about downsizing and casualizing the permanent workforce. this is a trend across industries. it's been a management consultancy doxa for years now.

I had to have a brief general anaesthetic for a minor, um procedure.

The anaesthetist asked if I could count backwards from 10

I said "Of course I can, I'm a fucking engineer I know how to count jesus fu-"
And thats the last thing I remember.

uziq wrote:

i know that labour's value is high right now due to the pandemic and the great en-quittening, but i still don't believe workers, even in the high-skill tech sector, are negotiating permanent contracts with all the emoluments.

Well you're wrong.

uziq wrote:

never mind the fact that i also said the best way to get a payrise or career advancement, more so today than ever, is to switch jobs in a reasonable time-frame.

Based on peers, if I were to add some cautionary career advice in general, it would be to not get involved in a family business (at least without due caution and planning), whether yours or someone else's. The former, a person might feel pinned down and reluctant to abandon it even if things go sour. The latter, a person might be passed up in favor of advancing the next generation up the ranks.

Seen family workers at companies expected to perform a lot of free, underpaid, or delay-paid labor in expectation that they'd want to "help out" the family business. Business may even ask for loans of family-employees and then never pay them back. Maybe not expecting an exploited sibling or child or cousin to want to sue. "Will I ever get this loan paid back? My account is looking mighty barren." "I paid for your food and school supplies when you were a kid, aren't we even?" Screw that.

Dilbert, I hope your procedure went alright.

I bought a Hilton hotel room Monday night. it hasn't shown up on my card yet. Usually stuff shows up instantly. Does it take long to process with them? Anyone used them before?

I stayed in the room. I bought the room at the front desk.

Labor Day. That's probably it.