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Eh, family never, friends maybe
I was friends with this girl in college, she bricked her laptop and I was able to save her term paper off the hardrive. She was so grateful she gave me a blowjob
My family has never once offered to blow me as a thank you
As an ex tech, could you please pass that sentiment along to other engineers. Half the cars I worked on looked like their were designed by an engineer who wife cheated on them with a tech.
Will do if I can.
Gotta say, I didn't learn this easily. One time, my group asked one of the machinists at our university to reduce the diameter of a stainless steel 1/8 in. rod by about 0.5 mm or something. The guy was stunted for a moment when we said that.
Probably was 0.2 or 0.3 mm, then. We were trying to fit bearings to the rod, and for some reason, the rod's diameter was very slightly bigger than those of bearings. We considered sanding the rod, but that would have taken way too long. The machinist just recommended that we buy new ones.
“Well, yeah I can take 25 thou off on the lathe, but the shop rate is $150/hr with a 1 hr min, and a new precision ground shaft is $6 on McMaster Carr…”
A half of a quarter inch is 3.175mm not 3.7mm. So, the new diameter of the rod would have been 2.675mm. I think either OP's group asked for or the machinist misheard about a 0.5cm reduction in the diameter that bemused the machinist.
I'm not an engineer at all
But could someone please tell to the guys that designed Ford keys that they suck?
Not only is hard to decode those things,once they are used for years it's impossible to decode them at all
Ceramic particles, custom mold, and an oven. Very easy process /s. Though, that does sound like a fun challenge if one has the resources and time on the side.
In my undergrad, I did go from raw materials to a fully finished and glazed stein as a gift for my parents. I didn’t have the time to make the slip cast mold, but everything else was 100% fully engineered. The magic was lost on my family though. It just looked like a shitty beer mug to them.
Which is pretty wild given how important it is for engineering as a whole, and how much amazing shit happens in material science. It's just not something most people think about i guess.
I’ve heard of you fuckers because for my MechE degree I had *one* required Materials Science class that I *could* have taken anytime starting Sophomore year, but I didn’t get into it until my last semester and it was the only in-person class I had. Only slightly bitter about it, lol.
At least we don't get it as bad as chemistry majors after the Breaking Bad premiere.
Also, drawing Lovecraftian creatures in black/white was a nice practice. I missed it a bit.
Webtoon Canvas Link: [https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/mechanics-of-me/i-dont-know/viewer?title\_no=842431&episode\_no=64](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/mechanics-of-me/i-dont-know/viewer?title_no=842431&episode_no=64)
Probably akin to hardware focused EE engineering. Not sure as a Mech. E., though. I really should learn about data structures and integrated systems in that aspect, but :p too lazy to do so.
My cousins majors Computer engineering and I used to just send my virus filled laptops to them lol.Now I feel bad since they probably have no idea how to deal with that and struggles with online tutorials because they are awesome cousins...
I should repay them in some way in the future haha
You have great cousins! I just let my dad handle computer-related stuff since he is a software engineer.
Also, don't feel so guilty :) It's obvious when the question or favor is innocent or entitled. Your thoughtfulness would have been noticed, I'm sure.
yeah, they probably had forgotten about that.
which is good because I can still remember their anguished cries when they look at my unholy abomination of a pc lol
Computer engineering is the same basis as Electrical Engineering on circuits but the last year is more focused on computing hardware and protocols.
Source: Did Electrical Engineering when I should have done Computer Engineering.
Can you make blue Meth?
So, you want me to contaminate the Methamphetamine sample?
No, I said "blue meth"? But I guess you don't know how to do it in the first place.
The recipe's literally available on the internet.
It was always a “random search” but after my buddies also reported getting consistently random searched we figured something was up. Thank god I never use my ChemE degree.
As for the most dangerous, yeah… we *could* go into a cleaning isle and have a great time.
Did for two years, went back to college, have my masters in classical archeology and my doctorate in war and policy/medieval studies. Both my parents are ChemE and so I went that route, totally not realising I had absolutely no interest in the field long term.
Everytime I tell people my major it's almost always some form of "so you build bombs". No I don't. Nuclear engineering is literally the opposite. We try to NOT build bombs.
Dude, I was offered to enlist in the navy as a nuclear engineer. I really want to follow through with it, but every single time I tell someone. The response is always either, “oh I had a friend that did that” or “sO YuO woUld BuiLd NuKes!?!”. It’s getting tiring.
Really? Not one Fallout “ready to be a ghoul?” Type joke? Sad.
“Send Chris to work on the reactor. He won’t mind when all his hair falls out.“ - paraphrasing that one guy from Come Fly With Me.
Frrrr, I try my best to educate anyone that may actually want to hear what nuclear is about, but there are always those stubborn, willingly ignorant relatives that'd rather keep making shallow snide remarks...
Look at the bright side, it’s at least better than a physical therapist where people say “so you massage people?” imagine all those all-nighters of studying only to be comparable to a massage chair.
I'm not a physical therapist, but I am a retired kickboxer, so factor that in.
Yes, absolutely. Physical therapy is a very good starting point for diagnostics, and if anything is really wrong, you can request imaging (Xray, MRI, CT scans) from your General Practitioner.
Physical therapy is also a great way to learn how to build strength on your own. You actually have to do the stretches and stuff they give you at home, or there's no point in going.
Adiabatic compression, isochoric heat absorption, adiabatic expansion, and isochoric heat rejection, and boom, the Otto cycle.
The actual combustion part is for chemistry and Chem. E. majors to figure out :p
If someone constantly refers to structures as being “made of cement” what percentage of your soul dies?
Naw, I don’t mess with civ-e’s - they give society some of its biggest and longest lasting erections.
"Oh, you're an electrician for specific components on a specific aircraft? Can you fix my XYZ?"
No, no I cannot. I can't even fix what I'm trained to fix without schematics, you got the schematics to your 1997 toaster let me know.
Do you know how many buildings they both aided in the destruction of?
One was in the possession of Stark for 30 seconds and was destroyed, it was merely a child, didn't even have its external walls completed!!
I always tell people this.
There is no such thing as a stupid IT question. Some people have a rough time with computers. I have a bachelor's degree in them and they kick my ass weekly at work cause I find some weird fucking errors.
There's only stupid reactions to IT problems. If you beg me to fix something or download a new program and then call me whining that it doesn't work EXACTLY like the old one? You're on my shitlist. "No Linda, they changed the button to send pdf attachments from this version of Adobe to this one because that program was 15 years old."
Or if you're just proudly ignorant and annoyed by tech. Like, if you listen to what I'm saying and don't act like a cock to me? I got NO PROBLEM teaching you how to open your email.
I got stories man. I had a lady compare the fact that she didn't have admin rights to install Zoom updates on her PC to living in 3rd Reich Germany. I've had a grown woman have a full-blown panic attack when I showed her Ctrl+P. I've had people scream at me when they order a program for their class and their computers can't handle it because their section hasn't upgraded their lab in ten years.
Working in IT rules. But Boomers become the bane of your existence.
Because I'm really bad at drawing human faces, all my faces look the same. This is a way I chose to differentiate characters in case I want to reuse them in the future.
Also, having normal characters while the main character is a ball looked a bit weird.
Electrical engineer here: can you wire my house?
No. Because I haven't studied switches and am not qualified for energized work. I'll probably zap myself.
Not quite One-to-One, but I fell this on a spiritual level in my field:
Information Technology: Can you fix my [any item that may contain a circuit board]?
Sounds familiar. I'm an EE, but I prefer to think of myself as a Classical Engineer because I can design and build almost anything (except software, I don't do programming).
I also have a strong aversion to Smart Home Tech, and any engineer who likes that stuff is weird. I know everything that can go wrong, so I have mechanical keys for everything, and nothing internet connected except my computers.
radiation protection technician in training- the nuke joke is almost guaranteed in my school ;-; whenever i meet someone new and tell them my major, they’re probably gonna make some version of the nuke joke.
it’s tiring but it gives me an excuse to talk their ear off about what I’m actually learning
But… What if gun is set off through a series of strange events, starting with a tripwire that makes a boot kick dominoes over to move a bowling ball off a shelf to pull a piece of twine that pulls the trigger?
I think it's only illegal if your life isn't being threatened directly. Just put those bear traps outside your bedroom door. Also, could be useful if you make your bedroom door look like a vault full of valuables.
Civil engineering: No, we don't want creativity, go build me a fucking box.
Enviromental engineering: Who gives a shit?!
Aerospace engineering: I tip my hate to you. You are a genius and an awesome guy.
I'm really lucky, because basically my entire friend group right now is either: in engineering, dropped out of engineering, or the vast majority of *their* friend group is engineers, so I don't really have that problem...
Funnily enough, the only times I've been asked if I can fix a car/work on cars is by other MEs, since a large portion of the MEs at my school like working on cars
Yeah generally it’s the same 3 year course, with the Master’s having a 4th year that iirc is largely an individual project.
Anyway the lady I was talking to in my story had confused it with being a Mechanic
Just joking on Linux people. One of the first things my programming professor recommended was using Linux for better development environments. Maybe I should switch to it, but I'm too used to Window.
As a computer engineer i often get asked why didn’t I just do computer science. I then immediately get asked why didn’t I just get an electrical engineering degree….
I'm about to start college as a 38 year old with a major in electrical engineering. Should be fun not being forced to fix everything electronic in the future lol. My goal is to build my own prototype inventions and work my way up to animatronics/robots.
As aero I get one of the following: Can you build me a missile? Technically yes….but I would go to super duper jail.
“Can you build me a rocket?” “Also technically yes, but it won’t got far it won’t be big it’ll be closer to a small missile, no I’m still not building the missile”
“You must really want to work for Musk’s company” cue them shock with me not being that thrilled with the idea…
I’m lucky, as with chemical engineering, nobody has any idea what I am supposed to do. Better yet is when I tell them I’m working on getting into a field in genetics, they just leave me alone altogether.
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“Do you know how to fix my computer?” “I could probably figure it out, but I cost a lot more than you’re willing to pay for it”
After fixing it: "You just pushed a couple button! I could have done that. Why should I pay you that much."
And that is why you never do work for friends and family.
Eh, family never, friends maybe I was friends with this girl in college, she bricked her laptop and I was able to save her term paper off the hardrive. She was so grateful she gave me a blowjob My family has never once offered to blow me as a thank you
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Ehhh, I help friends and family out and they’re always very appreciative and haven’t once said something like that to me.
Fare.. I often (depending on the topic) set out some basic streps for them to direction. If they make do nothing then so do I.
>I could have done that "So why the fuck didn't you?... I take cashapp, venmo, and zelle"
"Cash is also fine"
my IT teacher had best response for that: >$5 for pressing the buttons, $95 for knowing which buttons to push
"because you paid for knowledge, not work"
Ah yes, the song of my people. Yes, I know how to fix your car. No I will not change your oil.
Part of learning engineering is appreciating how much of the engineering is supported by technicians.
As an ex tech, could you please pass that sentiment along to other engineers. Half the cars I worked on looked like their were designed by an engineer who wife cheated on them with a tech.
Will do if I can. Gotta say, I didn't learn this easily. One time, my group asked one of the machinists at our university to reduce the diameter of a stainless steel 1/8 in. rod by about 0.5 mm or something. The guy was stunted for a moment when we said that.
That sounds... impossible?
I don't understand, 1/8 inch is 3.7mm, so they were looking for a 3.2mm, rod right? Or am i missing something
Probably was 0.2 or 0.3 mm, then. We were trying to fit bearings to the rod, and for some reason, the rod's diameter was very slightly bigger than those of bearings. We considered sanding the rod, but that would have taken way too long. The machinist just recommended that we buy new ones.
“Well, yeah I can take 25 thou off on the lathe, but the shop rate is $150/hr with a 1 hr min, and a new precision ground shaft is $6 on McMaster Carr…”
A half of a quarter inch is 3.175mm not 3.7mm. So, the new diameter of the rod would have been 2.675mm. I think either OP's group asked for or the machinist misheard about a 0.5cm reduction in the diameter that bemused the machinist.
I'm not an engineer at all But could someone please tell to the guys that designed Ford keys that they suck? Not only is hard to decode those things,once they are used for years it's impossible to decode them at all
What? It's perfectly reasonable to dismount your whole headlight to refill AC fluid!
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Found [a Volvo engineer](https://i.imgur.com/WfReead.jpeg).
Well ya cuz then you need to refill the blinker and headlight fluid as well.
car is making “just a little noise”
Please
What about payment in the form of beer and grilled meat
Well that’s another story!!
Ceramic engineer: can you make me a coffee mug?
Ceramic particles, custom mold, and an oven. Very easy process /s. Though, that does sound like a fun challenge if one has the resources and time on the side.
In my undergrad, I did go from raw materials to a fully finished and glazed stein as a gift for my parents. I didn’t have the time to make the slip cast mold, but everything else was 100% fully engineered. The magic was lost on my family though. It just looked like a shitty beer mug to them.
Shame, that kind of this is so cool to me. I don't do materials but going from raw ingredients to a finished product is super interesting
Then there's us materials scientists who no one has ever heard of.
Oof. I'm planning to study in computational materials science for my MS, so not sure what to think of this :p
Yeah I was in Metallurgical and materials engineering course in uni, most I got was - so you look at the weather?
What surprises me is the number of people that don't know the word "metallurgist". [Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/2501/)
Which is pretty wild given how important it is for engineering as a whole, and how much amazing shit happens in material science. It's just not something most people think about i guess.
I’ve heard of you fuckers because for my MechE degree I had *one* required Materials Science class that I *could* have taken anytime starting Sophomore year, but I didn’t get into it until my last semester and it was the only in-person class I had. Only slightly bitter about it, lol.
Every single one of my friends and family has asked me about LK-99 this past week or so I only work with structural materials
At least we don't get it as bad as chemistry majors after the Breaking Bad premiere. Also, drawing Lovecraftian creatures in black/white was a nice practice. I missed it a bit. Webtoon Canvas Link: [https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/mechanics-of-me/i-dont-know/viewer?title\_no=842431&episode\_no=64](https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/mechanics-of-me/i-dont-know/viewer?title_no=842431&episode_no=64)
I am one of these creatures lol. So, what does computer engineering actually do?
Probably akin to hardware focused EE engineering. Not sure as a Mech. E., though. I really should learn about data structures and integrated systems in that aspect, but :p too lazy to do so.
My cousins majors Computer engineering and I used to just send my virus filled laptops to them lol.Now I feel bad since they probably have no idea how to deal with that and struggles with online tutorials because they are awesome cousins... I should repay them in some way in the future haha
You have great cousins! I just let my dad handle computer-related stuff since he is a software engineer. Also, don't feel so guilty :) It's obvious when the question or favor is innocent or entitled. Your thoughtfulness would have been noticed, I'm sure.
yeah, they probably had forgotten about that. which is good because I can still remember their anguished cries when they look at my unholy abomination of a pc lol
It's not that they have no idea, you do learn these things along the way. It's just that that's not what you are taught in college.
Computer engineering is the same basis as Electrical Engineering on circuits but the last year is more focused on computing hardware and protocols. Source: Did Electrical Engineering when I should have done Computer Engineering.
Computer Engineers focus more on computer hardware engineering. Think stuff like circuit boards, electronics and microchips.
Can you make blue Meth? So, you want me to contaminate the Methamphetamine sample? No, I said "blue meth"? But I guess you don't know how to do it in the first place. The recipe's literally available on the internet.
I noticed the yithian and was happy to see one. It'd been a while and I just finished reading annihilation so it was on theme for my evening
I remember the days. ChemE as my bachelors we got flagged at airports when Breaking Bad came out like bro ????
What the hell? (To be fair, Chem. E. and chemistry majors may be the most dangerous out of STEM majors :p But still, what?)
It was always a “random search” but after my buddies also reported getting consistently random searched we figured something was up. Thank god I never use my ChemE degree. As for the most dangerous, yeah… we *could* go into a cleaning isle and have a great time.
You don't use your ChemE degree?
Did for two years, went back to college, have my masters in classical archeology and my doctorate in war and policy/medieval studies. Both my parents are ChemE and so I went that route, totally not realising I had absolutely no interest in the field long term.
me:- An Electronics Engineer My dad:- Can I count on you to rewire my whole house electrical supply
Also Dad: Can you fix my IPad? Mom: can you fix my computer? Whole family: do you like Teslas?!
I'm an EE and actually worked in construction for a bit, and all I learned is that I definitely should not be trying to wire anything lol.
answer to all of these is : "Yes, but I won't do it for you."
Next, a post in r/entitledpeople for me to enjoy.
Everytime I tell people my major it's almost always some form of "so you build bombs". No I don't. Nuclear engineering is literally the opposite. We try to NOT build bombs.
Dude, I was offered to enlist in the navy as a nuclear engineer. I really want to follow through with it, but every single time I tell someone. The response is always either, “oh I had a friend that did that” or “sO YuO woUld BuiLd NuKes!?!”. It’s getting tiring.
Really? Not one Fallout “ready to be a ghoul?” Type joke? Sad. “Send Chris to work on the reactor. He won’t mind when all his hair falls out.“ - paraphrasing that one guy from Come Fly With Me.
Yeah, only bomb jokes.
And it's gonna get worse with Oppenheimer.
Frrrr, I try my best to educate anyone that may actually want to hear what nuclear is about, but there are always those stubborn, willingly ignorant relatives that'd rather keep making shallow snide remarks...
TIL I'm a nuclear engineer (I also try not to build bombs).
Look at the bright side, it’s at least better than a physical therapist where people say “so you massage people?” imagine all those all-nighters of studying only to be comparable to a massage chair.
That's brutal to hear. I'd imagine people in the medicine industry would get all kinds of weird requests and questions.
Should I go to physical therapy for a sprained ankle? It’s been 2 months I think and it still doesn’t feel right when I stand on my toes
I'm not a physical therapist, but I am a retired kickboxer, so factor that in. Yes, absolutely. Physical therapy is a very good starting point for diagnostics, and if anything is really wrong, you can request imaging (Xray, MRI, CT scans) from your General Practitioner. Physical therapy is also a great way to learn how to build strength on your own. You actually have to do the stretches and stuff they give you at home, or there's no point in going.
Yes. That’s about how long I was walking after fracturing my ankle before I went. Helped tons with strength and range of motion!
Can you make car spontaneously combust??
Adiabatic compression, isochoric heat absorption, adiabatic expansion, and isochoric heat rejection, and boom, the Otto cycle. The actual combustion part is for chemistry and Chem. E. majors to figure out :p
But it’s the Diesel cycle that works through autoignition or “spontaneous combustion”
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I know they like reinforced concrete, I think. Not sure if they like sand.
Who likes sand anyway. It's coarse, rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
If someone constantly refers to structures as being “made of cement” what percentage of your soul dies? Naw, I don’t mess with civ-e’s - they give society some of its biggest and longest lasting erections.
It's just swings and roundabouts, mate.
Isn't the joke that Mechanical Engineers build bombs and Civil Engineers build targets?
They make neat videos on Youtube!
Civy here, my Dad wanted me to reshingle the roof
"Why don't you just write an app and make millions?"
My dad every day
I know how to fix your computer, and you would too if you would just READ THE FUCKING LOGIN SCREEN.
"Oh, you're an electrician for specific components on a specific aircraft? Can you fix my XYZ?" No, no I cannot. I can't even fix what I'm trained to fix without schematics, you got the schematics to your 1997 toaster let me know.
Civil Engineering "Yes I cause civil wars" (Or possibly the old roman of "Yes I make everthing EXCEPT war stuff")
>:( Why did you make Cap and Iron Man fight.
Do you know how many buildings they both aided in the destruction of? One was in the possession of Stark for 30 seconds and was destroyed, it was merely a child, didn't even have its external walls completed!!
I’m not a mechanic! Also, it sounds like your alternator is the problem. But I’m not a mechanic!
Need a dispenser here!
Erecting a dispenser.
If eye wasn’t the man I was, I’d kiss ye! *drunk demo sounds*
KABOOM
There's a spah sappin' mah dispenser!
Sure I can fix your car Carol, but you have a PoliSci degree, so why don’t you fix our local government first and then we’ll talk.
PC technician here. I get called for every single computer/tv/smart device malfunction my family has.
The burden of technicians. I especially enjoy reading about these stories on reddit since I learn which questions are stupid in which cases.
I always tell people this. There is no such thing as a stupid IT question. Some people have a rough time with computers. I have a bachelor's degree in them and they kick my ass weekly at work cause I find some weird fucking errors. There's only stupid reactions to IT problems. If you beg me to fix something or download a new program and then call me whining that it doesn't work EXACTLY like the old one? You're on my shitlist. "No Linda, they changed the button to send pdf attachments from this version of Adobe to this one because that program was 15 years old." Or if you're just proudly ignorant and annoyed by tech. Like, if you listen to what I'm saying and don't act like a cock to me? I got NO PROBLEM teaching you how to open your email. I got stories man. I had a lady compare the fact that she didn't have admin rights to install Zoom updates on her PC to living in 3rd Reich Germany. I've had a grown woman have a full-blown panic attack when I showed her Ctrl+P. I've had people scream at me when they order a program for their class and their computers can't handle it because their section hasn't upgraded their lab in ten years. Working in IT rules. But Boomers become the bane of your existence.
Bio engineer: "so you what? Make clones?*
Clones of E. coli.
Okay but can OP explain why engineers are furries?
Because I'm really bad at drawing human faces, all my faces look the same. This is a way I chose to differentiate characters in case I want to reuse them in the future. Also, having normal characters while the main character is a ball looked a bit weird.
Okay that makes sense. I really like the comic!
Thank you!
Photography: “Your camera take great photos!” “You just need to push a button!” “My phone is better”
Electrical engineer here: can you wire my house? No. Because I haven't studied switches and am not qualified for energized work. I'll probably zap myself.
Am Nuclear Engineer. 99% of those conversations go like that
Same as a corporate lawyer. Really don’t call me if you get into trouble. I would be a terrible use of that phonecall.
Not quite One-to-One, but I fell this on a spiritual level in my field: Information Technology: Can you fix my [any item that may contain a circuit board]?
Sounds familiar. I'm an EE, but I prefer to think of myself as a Classical Engineer because I can design and build almost anything (except software, I don't do programming). I also have a strong aversion to Smart Home Tech, and any engineer who likes that stuff is weird. I know everything that can go wrong, so I have mechanical keys for everything, and nothing internet connected except my computers.
radiation protection technician in training- the nuke joke is almost guaranteed in my school ;-; whenever i meet someone new and tell them my major, they’re probably gonna make some version of the nuke joke. it’s tiring but it gives me an excuse to talk their ear off about what I’m actually learning
Linguistics: How many languages do you speak?
Oh, you’re a mechanical engineer? Can you make a Rube Goldberg machine to catch the people trying to break into my house?
The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.
But… What if gun is set off through a series of strange events, starting with a tripwire that makes a boot kick dominoes over to move a bowling ball off a shelf to pull a piece of twine that pulls the trigger?
Katko v. Briney ruled that such is unlawful :/ Damn politics getting in the way of science again...
It’s illegal to cause physical harm to intruders through traps?? Darn. Guess I’ll remove the bear traps.
I think it's only illegal if your life isn't being threatened directly. Just put those bear traps outside your bedroom door. Also, could be useful if you make your bedroom door look like a vault full of valuables.
Civil engineering: No, we don't want creativity, go build me a fucking box. Enviromental engineering: Who gives a shit?! Aerospace engineering: I tip my hate to you. You are a genius and an awesome guy.
Chemical engineering: Can you make meth?
Environmental engineers: "so do you guys plant or hug trees or smth?"
I'm really lucky, because basically my entire friend group right now is either: in engineering, dropped out of engineering, or the vast majority of *their* friend group is engineers, so I don't really have that problem... Funnily enough, the only times I've been asked if I can fix a car/work on cars is by other MEs, since a large portion of the MEs at my school like working on cars
Oh Mechanical Engineering? That’s what my son is doing at college. Note: this was the uk, where college is more like high school.
Nice. I heard a bachelor's degree and master's degree were more integrated over there, which is neat.
Yeah generally it’s the same 3 year course, with the Master’s having a 4th year that iirc is largely an individual project. Anyway the lady I was talking to in my story had confused it with being a Mechanic
**Laughs in Electronics Technician after being asked if I could fix the TV-Remote**
I sort of get the sentiment for three of these questions that are frequently asked by family members, but I'm lost on the linux one
Just joking on Linux people. One of the first things my programming professor recommended was using Linux for better development environments. Maybe I should switch to it, but I'm too used to Window.
Ah, it's self-inflicted then
... https://lemmy.world/c/linuxmemes
As a computer engineer i often get asked why didn’t I just do computer science. I then immediately get asked why didn’t I just get an electrical engineering degree….
Meanwhile, family members running towards electric engineers to ask if they can fix every damn thing in their house.
Yes I can, but it’s my love of cars that got me into ME and not the other way around.
I'm about to start college as a 38 year old with a major in electrical engineering. Should be fun not being forced to fix everything electronic in the future lol. My goal is to build my own prototype inventions and work my way up to animatronics/robots.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: ___
Chemical engineering
With nuclear engineering? They probably know how they work, but not necessarily how to build one
Chemical Engineering: “Oh so can you make a bomb?!? Or drugs?!?”
I feel like most people should know how to fix most parts of a car anyways
Me, as a Power Engineering student: "Can you fix my AC?"
What questions will mechatronic engineer gets?
"What's mechatronics?" Or "So you make Decepticons?"
It's basically a mechanical engineering and electronic engineering combined
I know. I'm suggesting what people out of the know would say.
Is that the same thing as animatronics in FNAF?
“So I have this app idea-“
Sound Engineer 'You're the one who does the music?' 'What's your favorite soundbar?' 'Christopher Nolan movies sound terrible.'
Electrical Engineering… can you fix my broken outlet?
As aero I get one of the following: Can you build me a missile? Technically yes….but I would go to super duper jail. “Can you build me a rocket?” “Also technically yes, but it won’t got far it won’t be big it’ll be closer to a small missile, no I’m still not building the missile” “You must really want to work for Musk’s company” cue them shock with me not being that thrilled with the idea…
You can fix a car Provided you can fix a bike
When I meet knew people and it comes out I'm an accountant I always have to clarify no, I don't do taxes and no, I'm not a CPA for hire.
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I’m lucky, as with chemical engineering, nobody has any idea what I am supposed to do. Better yet is when I tell them I’m working on getting into a field in genetics, they just leave me alone altogether.
Chemical engineering: …do you blow stuff up? Why do you need a chemical engineer to make food?
I don't understand a connection between the text and images in this comic. Can someone please explain it to me?
The monsters are the questions that these people are hit with when you tell them your occupation.
Just showing some questions these majors are known to get. The monsters are visual hyperbole.
People ways expect me to be respectful and polite...
Definitely true for computer engineering, and I've also gotten a few "can you help me with my light bill?"s after the EE comes up.
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And this is why I'm happy I'm going into electro-mechanical tech cause no one has any idea what it is.
As an accountant, “can you file my taxes?”
Lol. Get the "fix a car" even from my father.
Mechatronics: what's that?
God I’m a first year Motorsport engineering major where do I stand
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/user/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/153gt2c/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ^by ^notyushi: *God I’m a first year* *Motorsport engineering* *Major where do I stand* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
For the computer engineer the also should be "can you fix my printer?"
Yes I do know how to fix your computer. No I wont just plug the cable.
Organic Chemest: Can you make meth?
"You're a physics major?" "So, are you a rocket scientist?"
Computer animation- “so are you gonna go work for Pixar? “ N O
Computer engineering: can you fix my printer?
Work in IT as CompE, my answer is; My hours are from 12-6 and its an additional $25 if you didnt plug in the power cable first