i regret taking engineering.
Engineering is a shitty profession to have. Take it if you have no hobbies, no interests, no sense of work/life balance and no friends outside your field of expertise. The hours are similar to that of a doctor's, where you're perpetually on call or you have to be on site for months, putting your personal life on the backseat for indefinite periods of time. They said the pay would be good, but they lied. You spend so much goddamn time and effort in school only to be ripped off, in terms of money and time, at work. So many of my friends, even the girl i'm dating, have or have had much easier and more mindless jobs that pay at least 150% more than i make now. Do you know how shitty that makes me feel? i'd like to at least have a decent salary and well compensated overtime, thank you stupid motherfuckers. Then you have clients that're fucking ingrates, complaining or bitching about things that they don't understand, stabbing you in the back when you're not paying attention. You end up running around, making up for THEIR shortcomings, in terms of data availability, process inefficiency and other stuff. Your deadlines will more often than not be immovable, even if other idiots in the IT, Finance, Accounting, HR departments delay your progress by months. Even other so-called engineers will delay you with their stupidity.
In short, if you want to have fun with your life, get out of engineering. If you're an engineering student reading this, get out now, for your own sanity. Take up a different course like business, management, advertising, fine arts. If you're really into technical stuff, do hard core robotics or compsci. Just not engineering.
If i could go back in time, i'd tell my younger self to take up compsci. i'm a bitching good programmer now, even in my impaired state. Impaired coz my idiot partner on the project keeps fucking up my trains of thought, coz our clients are fucking morons, and coz the programming isn't really that challenging. The hardest part is actually just getting different parts of the system to communicate with each other, and troubleshooting, coz we're working with the electrical, mechanical and software aspects of these devices. Too many things can go wrong.
Anyway yeah, in my impaired state, i'm sure i'm still better than most of my engineering batchmates, what more if i really honed my skills 5 years ago and took up compsci? The compsci people seem like a funner bunch too. Plus, they're really laid back, and the teachers seem to take their subjects more seriously than the eng'g professors. Gahd. 5 years and theoretically a million bucks in tuition fees, gas and parking down the drain.
i dunno where to go from here. Robotics research doesn't pay very well in this country, and i dunno if i wanna take a Master's Degree in compsci. i'll need to take compsci undergrad to make up for my shortcomings (yes, as proud as i am, i admit, compared to the compsci geeks [i don't say geeks offensively, in this context it's more of praise] i still have a lot to learn. Hay nako. Maybe online courses? i'm thinking about it.
In other news, my helicopter is now fucking retarded. It doesn't respond to the controller anymore, and i dunno if it's coz of the servo motors, the transmitter or the onboard controller/receiver. In my troubleshooting process, i think i ruled out the controller, but that still leaves two EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE systems i possibly need to replace. i can't afford to make a mistake in determining the problem coz replacing one of the two systems would almost be like buying an entirely new helicopter. Hell, given the possibility of a mistake in purchasing components, i'd probably be better off buying a new unit. i'll have a lot more extra parts available if i do so. How retarded is my helicopter, you ask? Have you seen one do cartwheels in the air? i've never seen that done and mine just did that a couple times the past two days. Fuck this shit.
THIS IS WHY I HATE ENGINEERING. i have so little free time, and when i do get enough leeway to fly my helicopters, or enjoy my other hobbies, SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPENS. IT TAKES ENTIRE DAYS TO FIX THESE THINGS and by the time i'm done, i have to wait AT LEAST ANOTHER WEEK before i have free time again. That isn't even guaranteed, coz, in engineering, people expect you to still work on weekends. This is wrong, seeing as how engineers are the ones that really move things in this world. We get paid shit, yet we do a lot of the base work for companies to survive. What if we all just decided we won't take this crap anymore and stopped working? Well you'd have multinationals go down in flames, that's what would happen.
The only thing i MAY HAVE gained from engineering is the ability/confidence to take apart and troubleshoot circuit boards as well as other intimidating electro-mechanical systems. i say intimidating, coz these things really aren't complicated. Servo motors are easy and microcontroller boards only need a rudimentary understanding of electronics to troubleshoot. Although if you think about it, i may have gained all these skills, not from engineering, but from being a hobbyist. So... What's the point in being an engineer? NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
If you really find electronics intimidating, learn it online, then have the guts to tear open stuff like old cellphones and make them live again if you really wanna learn. Sure, you could ruin thousands of pesos worth of electronics but other times you could just make these things work again. Seriously, if you have the guts to go out and take the risk with these things, you might just find out they're not as difficult to make as they look.
i wanna look for an easier job that pays more but i feel like i'm gonna end up wasting all the things i learned from the Philip fucking Morris system, coz i did pick up a lot from that.
i regret this life i lead. Seriously. Don't take engineering. You'll sacrifice so much for so little, burn out and go bald young.
Perfect example of how little time and energy i now have: i have to make a very conscious effort to schedule seemingly mundane tasks now. For example, i need to consciously remember to clean my room, buy new shampoo, buy new shaving cream, to shave, etc. TO SHAVE. I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO SHAVE AND CUT MY NAILS. What kind of a life do you live if you have to note down in your cellphone that you have to do basic hygienic functions. Tang ina.
In short, if you want to have fun with your life, get out of engineering. If you're an engineering student reading this, get out now, for your own sanity. Take up a different course like business, management, advertising, fine arts. If you're really into technical stuff, do hard core robotics or compsci. Just not engineering.
If i could go back in time, i'd tell my younger self to take up compsci. i'm a bitching good programmer now, even in my impaired state. Impaired coz my idiot partner on the project keeps fucking up my trains of thought, coz our clients are fucking morons, and coz the programming isn't really that challenging. The hardest part is actually just getting different parts of the system to communicate with each other, and troubleshooting, coz we're working with the electrical, mechanical and software aspects of these devices. Too many things can go wrong.
Anyway yeah, in my impaired state, i'm sure i'm still better than most of my engineering batchmates, what more if i really honed my skills 5 years ago and took up compsci? The compsci people seem like a funner bunch too. Plus, they're really laid back, and the teachers seem to take their subjects more seriously than the eng'g professors. Gahd. 5 years and theoretically a million bucks in tuition fees, gas and parking down the drain.
i dunno where to go from here. Robotics research doesn't pay very well in this country, and i dunno if i wanna take a Master's Degree in compsci. i'll need to take compsci undergrad to make up for my shortcomings (yes, as proud as i am, i admit, compared to the compsci geeks [i don't say geeks offensively, in this context it's more of praise] i still have a lot to learn. Hay nako. Maybe online courses? i'm thinking about it.
In other news, my helicopter is now fucking retarded. It doesn't respond to the controller anymore, and i dunno if it's coz of the servo motors, the transmitter or the onboard controller/receiver. In my troubleshooting process, i think i ruled out the controller, but that still leaves two EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE systems i possibly need to replace. i can't afford to make a mistake in determining the problem coz replacing one of the two systems would almost be like buying an entirely new helicopter. Hell, given the possibility of a mistake in purchasing components, i'd probably be better off buying a new unit. i'll have a lot more extra parts available if i do so. How retarded is my helicopter, you ask? Have you seen one do cartwheels in the air? i've never seen that done and mine just did that a couple times the past two days. Fuck this shit.
THIS IS WHY I HATE ENGINEERING. i have so little free time, and when i do get enough leeway to fly my helicopters, or enjoy my other hobbies, SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPENS. IT TAKES ENTIRE DAYS TO FIX THESE THINGS and by the time i'm done, i have to wait AT LEAST ANOTHER WEEK before i have free time again. That isn't even guaranteed, coz, in engineering, people expect you to still work on weekends. This is wrong, seeing as how engineers are the ones that really move things in this world. We get paid shit, yet we do a lot of the base work for companies to survive. What if we all just decided we won't take this crap anymore and stopped working? Well you'd have multinationals go down in flames, that's what would happen.
The only thing i MAY HAVE gained from engineering is the ability/confidence to take apart and troubleshoot circuit boards as well as other intimidating electro-mechanical systems. i say intimidating, coz these things really aren't complicated. Servo motors are easy and microcontroller boards only need a rudimentary understanding of electronics to troubleshoot. Although if you think about it, i may have gained all these skills, not from engineering, but from being a hobbyist. So... What's the point in being an engineer? NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
If you really find electronics intimidating, learn it online, then have the guts to tear open stuff like old cellphones and make them live again if you really wanna learn. Sure, you could ruin thousands of pesos worth of electronics but other times you could just make these things work again. Seriously, if you have the guts to go out and take the risk with these things, you might just find out they're not as difficult to make as they look.
i wanna look for an easier job that pays more but i feel like i'm gonna end up wasting all the things i learned from the Philip fucking Morris system, coz i did pick up a lot from that.
i regret this life i lead. Seriously. Don't take engineering. You'll sacrifice so much for so little, burn out and go bald young.
Perfect example of how little time and energy i now have: i have to make a very conscious effort to schedule seemingly mundane tasks now. For example, i need to consciously remember to clean my room, buy new shampoo, buy new shaving cream, to shave, etc. TO SHAVE. I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO SHAVE AND CUT MY NAILS. What kind of a life do you live if you have to note down in your cellphone that you have to do basic hygienic functions. Tang ina.