Who doesn't want to be an engineer?

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by Koko Ed
in spite of my age.

*curious*

Having experienced multiple chapters in my life already.

[_NiKki_]

i want to study the history of religion thats very distant from robotics..well actually i suppose that technology will be needed to uncover new stuff- like archealogical findings..hm...FIRST DOES tie into almost every profession

[Neal Probert]

Why would you want to be an engineer or programmer when the jobs are going to India and China? As an engineer myself it is getting harder to find jobs and I'm making less money than I used to.

The only people who make more and more money in this country are the greedy rich CEOs, lawyers, big name athletes and entertainment superstars.

That's a very small percentage of the population so essentially America is going to become a feudal state of royalty and peasants. Unless something is done soon about it.

Btw, Delphi has recently announced some tech job cutbacks in order to outsource work to India.

[Astronouth7303]

I hear skilled trades are doing pretty well. You know, contractors. Things like electritions, plumbers, that sort of thing.

Oh yea, and service jobs aren't going anywhere.

[Iain McLeod]

Personally I want to be a writer- some sort of fantasy fiction.
If that doesn't work out I guess I'll go for journalist.

Yeah, basically I go around the robotics room and cross out all the spelling errors.

"No, there is no apostrophe in robotic's!!" is a phrase I will often be heard to say.

[Andrew Cole]

I kind of want to be an auto mechanic but nowadays that seems like a low ranking job and not one to shoot for.

[David the bomb]

I want to play in the NBA. I want to get myself a nice car, see avatar above^, and a boat. Oh ya. Like that will happen
I will probably end up just being an engineer like my dad.

[RiceRobotica]

Personally, I'd rather be a teacher than an engineer. I hope to be a chemistry teacher and MAYBE physics if I can understand it more in college. If I get an engineering degree, it would only be to futher understand what I will have already learned to teach, but I wouldn't use that degree to be an engineer and ONLY an engineer. I want to coach FIRST Teams for a very long time, and teaching will take me there. Plus, I just love inspiring those young minds. I really do, though. I like teaching.

[dubious elise]

well, i feel kinda guilty admitting this, after all of the awesome engineers i've met this year, but i still want to work in the medical field either as a practitioner or a surgeon so that i can do medical illustrations in my free time (if i have any!)

[MrToast]

I want to rule the universe!

I also wouldn't mind being a physics teacher....

MrToast

[MattK]

I dont have the math skills to be a engineer.

That said, I would like to either major in broadcast journalism, or poli-sci

[jpsaul7usa]

Originally Posted by MattK

I dont have the math skills to be a engineer.

When I read that I wanted to say something encouraging about math not being about skill but just needing some good 'ol fashion hard work, but when I asked the math major in my wing about how he would respond I just had to post it.

"you are a perfect engineer!"

I'm now ready to take flak from all you engineers out there. I hand out with a lot of superior minded math people, and their influence on me has grown. ;p

Honestly though, engineers today use computers and not much math. The difference in school is two or three extra math courses as an engineer or scientist than everyoneone else, at least at my school anyway.

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by jpsaul7usa

When I read that I wanted to say something encouraging about math not being about skill but just needing some good 'ol fashion hard work, but when I asked the math major in my wing about how he would respond I just had to post it.

"you are a perfect engineer!"

I'm now ready to take flak from all you engineers out there. I hand out with a lot of superior minded math people, and their influence on me has grown. ;p

Honestly though, engineers today use computers and not much math. The difference in school is two or three extra math courses as an engineer or scientist than everyoneone else, at least at my school anyway.

I disagree completely. What your friend said was sarcastic - don't develop it more. Being good at math has nothing to do with being able to memorize long formulas or being able to calculate fluid movement. Saying you're good a math is a more general thing - it means you are good at problem solving. It means you can take a problem, take what you are given, and figure out a way to use that information to find what you need. In twenty years, I will have forgotten most of this math stuff involving groups or sets or derivative rules. But what I will have retained is a sense of how to tackle problems and skills to engineer a solution. And that problem-solving skill is what's important. That's engineering.

[Ali Ahmed]

I want to become a pychologist or something in medicine. And I am going to join the Navy but not really do an egineering job. This is just a fun thing to do that I call my hobby but it eventually ended up being that school is more of a hobby.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I love FIRST, and before I got into it I wanted to be a surgeon/vetrinarian. However, what it changed for me wasn't my outlook on my career. I want to be a pediatrician of some sort right now, but what FIRST has given me is a better look at my college interests (Biomedical Engineering). I don't think FIRST will change my medical ambitions, but it has already more than helped me to redefine my passion for problem solving and improve my friendships with people on the team and make friends from all over as well. That's my favorite part of FIRST.