For me, I found out yesterday from my grandfather (who is a production engineer) that on his mother side, engineering has been in my family since 1850, a whopping 163 years. And im the first electrical
What about you?
What about you?
I hear that country song! My gramps was the same way.Farmers, all of them, except my father. He was a, "jack of all trades". Called himself , "The Fixit Man". He was a mix of brilliant and ignorant. In fact, I am not an engineer, either. (Another mix of brilliant and ignorant.) I have worked as an electronic design engineer, paycheck and everything, but I only have a 2 year degree and never took an engineering course, unless you want to count calculus, that I forgot most of.
I'm another jack of all trades. Still no engineers in my family.
I'm the first in my family to take a college level course, but one in the next generation has a BS in something that involves psychology. Good fit for her. Talk all day and get paid for it. I don't even understand what she does. Seems fair. She looks at what I do and holds up a crucifix to ward it off
I'm a shade tree fixit man.I hear that country song! My gramps was the same way.
And some of those Kentuckians actually don't mind if you stop their air conditioner rattling by jamming a stick in the broken fan motor bracket, but it's only a good repair if you take care to whittle the bark off the stick.Appalachian engineering and country music are proud traditions.
True. My nephew grew up there. Once upon a time, somebody was complaining about being left somewhere that was not a city and he replied, "What's the problem? I have a pocket knife and a BIC lighter."mountain people are some of the most inventive, creative and self-sufficient people you'll ever meet.
by Duane Benson
by Jake Hertz
by Jake Hertz
by Duane Benson