we are doing engineering for greed 26

[adityabhardwaj]

we are doing engineering for greed of job money or for self satisfaction??

think TWICE before reply.........!!!

$ny

 

[Terminus0]

Engineering is a great way to earn a living.

It is an awfully terrible way to get rich.

 

[IRstuff]

"It is an awfully terrible way to get rich."

There are more jobs that are even worse ways to get rich, digging ditches, for example...

And there are those who are exceeding frugal and managed to save $500k and up on salaries that are noticeably smaller than that of engineers. Most of us just choose not to be reasonably well off.

TTFN
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[stanweld]

metengr,
Absolutely!!!

 

[SNORGY]

"Man" purely in the colloquial, gender-neutral sense...

Maybe it's a Canadian thing...certainly no disrespect intended.

 

[SNORGY]

I became an engineer because of a very painful, traumatic childhood and adolescent experience with respect to realizing that my single and sole lifetime ambition would never be realized. It is painful for me to talk about to this very day.

You see...

I have never dunked a basketball.

 

[rowingengineer]

Are hookers greedy?

http://www.nceng.com.au/

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

 

[stanier]

As an engineer I believe I am "rich" not because of the amount of 0000s behind the numbers in my bank account. Rather I have contributed to humanity and others have benefited. Engineering is my hobby and I get paid for it. Is that greed, i think not. i have a richness of life as I sleep at nights. Those without integrity may also sleep well but they are without souls.

If it didnt grow it was developed by an engineer. Look around you. I am of two minds what made things "grow" in the first place but I do know engineers are the "can do" people. Unlike bankers, lawyers, accountants, doctors etc who are historians for they only do anything when something has occurred. Then there are the dreamers: The clergy, scientists, philosophers, environmentalists, pollies who throw up ideas and wait for engineers to come along and do something about it.

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
---B.B. King

http://waterhammer.hopout.com.au/

 

[metengr]

quote]Are hookers greedy?[/quote]
Sure, look at the customers they need to put up with.

 

[HornTootinEE]

Do you ever wonder if a hooker gets any pleasure out of the expierience, or is that type of activity subject to the Law of Diminishing Returns?

 

[FACS]

I'd be happy to answer your question, but I don't work for free.
Please send a money order for $535.00 and I will submit my answer.

Thank you,


Charlie

http://www.facsco.com

 

[TheBlacksmith]

I work in the shipbuilding industry after retiring from the Navy so I'll give the answer I often do. I spent 20 years in the Navy wondering what a**hole designed this POS and now I'm the a**hole. I want to make it better and easier for the sailors of the future and am fairly compensated for bringing my knowledge, abilities and experience to bear.

 

[Drej]

Personally I just love it. Most of the time. I try and make as much money as I can to help pay the bills for my expanding family. I'm not sure I could *do* a job I couldn't 'love' as I found out when flipping burgers as a student.

But greed? Engineers?

Oh purrleease.

Most of us don't have the time or the inclination to be greedy.


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[EngineerDave]

I went into engineering because of a family history of it and I wanted to go into the most challenging undergraduate major. I considered all other options, but knew that if I wanted to go to medical school or other things, I still had a pathway going through engineering school first.

Never regret it. It was tough but well worth it.

 

[moon161]

Somewhere between not starving and living to make stuff. The fact that engineers make more than a burger flipper, and less than a playboy helps, and the fact that people make money off of my efforts as well. At this point, I've designed or specified millions in raw material, labor & finished product, all employer furnished. 5 days a week I have enough rope to hang myself and a bunch of smart people who want to make my project happen. All a bit of a rush sometimes.

 

[moon161]

Quick joke, I'm sure many will appreciate.

French revolution, intellectuals are being rounded up & executed. A priest, philosopher & engineer are lined up at the guillotine.

Priest says he wishes to spend his last moments looking up at heaven, so executioner puts him on his back, pulls the rope, nothing happens. Priest proclaims it a miracle, they let him go.

Philosopher is up, wants to see the people, executioner puts him on his belly, pulls the rope, nothing happens. "Will of the people" says the executioner, lets him go.

Engineer is curious, how's a guillotine work? Executioner puts him on his back, pulls the rope, nothing happens.
Engineer says "Oh! I think I see the problem!"

 

[bridgebuster]

I went into engineering because I enjoyed building things as a child. Sure I appreciate the salary and I want to earn as much as possible. But I don't think of myself as greedy. Greed is an unhealthy attachment to something, and it's not going to get us anywhere in this life.