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machman-2823 07-10-2013 18:23
Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Would you rather be an Engineer or a Lawyer?

Ether 07-10-2013 18:34
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by machman-2823 (Post 1295117)
Would you rather be an Engineer or a Lawyer?
Both (killer combo).

machman-2823 07-10-2013 18:36
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
that would b odd, and kinda cool, but don't lawyers create problems, and engineers fix them?
so you would have to fix your own problems, and not other issues.

DonRotolo 07-10-2013 18:39
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
I once met a guy who got his first degree as a Mechanical Engineer. That got boring so he became a MD. Eventually he settled on being a lawyer, which was what he did until he stopped.

Like Ether said: Both.

machman-2823 07-10-2013 18:40
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Dang.

Nate Laverdure 07-10-2013 18:41
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
http://careers.uspto.gov/Pages/WhyWork/Default.aspx

Akash Rastogi 07-10-2013 18:44
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by DonRotolo (Post 1295127)
I once met a guy who got his first degree as a Mechanical Engineer. That got boring so he became a MD. Eventually he settled on being a lawyer, which was what he did until he stopped.

Like Ether said: Both.
A lot of companies also like how engineers/mathematicians think. A cousin of mine did math at MIT, then law at Harvard. He's now somehow the managing principal of a hedge fund...

Who knows what else you can do with STEM!

Tristan Lall 07-10-2013 18:58
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by machman-2823 (Post 1295126)
that would b odd, and kinda cool, but don't lawyers create problems, and engineers fix them?
Where did you learn that?

Surely you can think of counterexamples—a problem solved by a lawyer and a problem created by an engineer. Why don't you list a couple for us to discuss?

EricH 07-10-2013 20:20
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan Lall (Post 1295132)
Surely you can think of counterexamples—a problem solved by a lawyer and a problem created by an engineer. Why don't you list a couple for us to discuss?
Lawyers do tend to solve the problem of innocent people being convicted. Also the problem of deciphering legalese.

Engineers creating problems... Not gonna go there. Let's just say that engineers whose main undergrad work has minimal hands-on work tend to get some "What was that engineer THINKING?" (and worse) from folks that have to build/repair/otherwise interact with stuff said engineers designed.


To answer the initial question: I'll go with engineer, but reserve the right to try to understand the lawyers' thinking.

cgmv123 07-10-2013 20:45
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
Our co-program director is both an engineer and a lawyer. He's also the most dangerous (not safety dangerous!) mentor on the team.

Jacob Bendicksen 08-10-2013 00:24
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
I feel like this might be a semi-biased poll base.

Andrew Lawrence 08-10-2013 00:37
Re: Engineer or Lawyer?
 
One of our mentors has been both an engineer and a lawyer and is now our Physics teacher, and is one of the greatest men I know.

Just curious - what were your intentions in starting this thread?


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