thx for making the rest of us more valuable

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/12/02/n_engineers_quit.cnnmoney/

12/2/2011 3:53:27 PM

1. at the engineering girl they interviewed. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL?!?!?!

2. "it takes like 8 hours a day" "lol why would you want to study so much?!?!"

3. Nice shot of a flyball governor.

12/2/2011 5:09:11 PM

I dropped out of art and into science

so nuh

drawing is hard

12/2/2011 5:18:51 PM

I dropped out of bio sciences and into business mgmt. now I'm a doctor. go figure. Bio was so f'ing boring.

12/2/2011 5:24:30 PM

a doctor of what?

12/2/2011 5:28:38 PM

I dropped out of CS and into a BS of Economics

12/2/2011 5:31:20 PM

i dropped out of PY and into CSC. for the dollar bucks

Education is a lifelong pursuit for me though. If i'm not at work (and sometimes when i am at work) or enjoying the company of my wife/children, most likely i'm spending my time learning new stuff

12/2/2011 5:57:13 PM

^^^
MD. Sorry, should have specified.

12/2/2011 6:01:47 PM

We don't need more STEM majors; we need good ones.

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Henry V William Shakespeare

And my plug for why STEM majors need the humanities and liberal arts.

[Edited on December 2, 2011 at 6:06 PM. Reason : ..]

12/2/2011 6:05:23 PM

nice hips on that reporter chick

12/2/2011 6:12:58 PM

Soooooo.... At 46.2K/year, I'm getting royally fucked on pay. Probably in a year or 2 I will look for a new job. I'm in a position where I can learn a lot about a particular subject where there are not a lot of people who know much about it.

12/2/2011 6:59:53 PM

I dropped GreatGazoo's class before I was serious or cared about Chemistry. I think it scared me enough that when I went back for biochem I made an A+ in every chem/bio class thereafter. I wish I had retaken it with him now.

I still need to take Inorganic to get a Chem degree maybe I can take it remotely to repay my dues

12/2/2011 7:08:04 PM

I dropped out of undeclared into EE

I'm Krallum and I approved this message

12/2/2011 7:29:55 PM

Sounds like you dropped into EE.

12/2/2011 8:21:26 PM

But I didn't like all that aerospace engineering.... it wasn't fun like I was hoping....

However, presented with an opportunity to do some programming for an aerospace company (computational analysis, etc.) I'd totally apply for it.

[Edited on December 2, 2011 at 8:47 PM. Reason : I switched to computer science... so I'm not sure it actually applies to this thread.]

12/2/2011 8:47:02 PM

Damn I'm clearing 120 in landscaping

12/2/2011 8:54:23 PM

I dropped out of CPE/ECE and into Accounting, making those mad dollar bucks now

12/2/2011 9:01:23 PM

I got my engineering degree but am now in business. Probably wouldn't have gotten the job without the engineering degree though.

12/2/2011 10:40:27 PM

You're welcome.

I dropped out of Aerospace Engineering because I decided I'd rather fly 'em than design 'em. It really wasn't my cup of tea.

Even if I had to change careers I'd probably go to law school rather than go back to school for engineering.

12/2/2011 10:41:54 PM

Quote :

"Engineering and Science Dropouts "

myself included, haters gonna hate

12/2/2011 10:58:59 PM

I did 4 years of computer engineering before changing my mind to become a meteorologist. I have a job as a network engineer. Degree didn't matter, but the experience did.

12/3/2011 1:55:39 AM

I agree ddk

art is hard

12/3/2011 3:49:51 AM

I'm a scientist and I graduated from CHASS.

A social scientist :p

I'm also a pirate.

A software pirate :p

12/3/2011 9:51:53 AM

Quote :

"it takes like 8 hours a day"

If you're having to put in 8 hours a day of extra studying/work a day (just to pass) then you probably weren't meant to be an engineer.

12/3/2011 10:26:37 AM

I dropped out of zoology (a lot less life sciences oriented than I imagined in high school) and into political science. I've been pleasantly surprised with my job getting abilities in this economy with that degree. I guess all those classes on brown-nosing people paid off.

12/3/2011 10:39:16 AM

I did both ChemE and English

[no dropout]

12/3/2011 12:52:45 PM

my friend triple majored in chemistry, physics and math at State, then later got a BA in Fine Arts, and is now doing a Neuroscience PhD and is researching how the brain changes while doing creative activities. dude is my hero

[Edited on December 3, 2011 at 1:24 PM. Reason : .]

12/3/2011 1:23:01 PM

I dropped out of engineering because nobody could understand the Indian motherfuckers they hired - WITH TENURE - having absolutely no choice but to take their class because nobody else taught it.


The class average was 23 out of 100. He curved based on the highest grade, but of course there is always that ONE guy who already knows everything and gets a 76 on the test. 76 because he got the right answers but he didn't do it the teacher's way.

Also I dropped out because all the engineering teachers were ugly, old, unhappy, nerdy, and isolated in society. (Unlike English, Some Computer Science, Math, etc... teachers)


Money is not worth that kind of life.

12/3/2011 1:51:02 PM

I was once an EE dropout. I was a junior when I left, and after a four year hiatus I am now a senior in nuclear engineering and doing well. IT CAN BE DONE, DROPOUTS, IT CAN BE DONE

12/3/2011 1:59:54 PM

Was a double computer and electrical engineering student...went to math education...then asked advisor what was the quickest non education or engineering way out. He said math.

12/3/2011 2:07:15 PM

Quote :

" Education is a lifelong pursuit for me though. If i'm not at work (and sometimes when i am at work) or enjoying the company of my wife/children, most likely i'm spending my time learning new stuff"

this guy speaks truth.

and the other guy he speaks of is one of my heroes as well.

[Edited on December 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM. Reason : Alex]

12/3/2011 3:32:27 PM

Quote :

"I dropped out of engineering because nobody could understand the Indian motherfuckers they hired - WITH TENURE - having absolutely no choice but to take their class because nobody else taught it. "

Jobs tells the VP that if the garbage in his office is not being emptied regularly for some reason, he would ask the janitor what the problem is. The janitor could reasonably respond by saying, "Well, the lock on the door was changed, and I couldn't get a key." An irritation for Jobs, for an understandable excuse for why the janitor couldn't do his job. As a janitor, he's allowed to have excuses.

"When you're the janitor, reasons matter," Jobs tells newly minted VPs, according to Lashinsky. "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering," says Jobs, adding, that Rubicon is "crossed when you become a VP."


http://www.hrcapitalist.com/2011/05/s-steve-jobs-says-the-difference-between-a-vp-and-a-janitor.html

12/3/2011 6:49:58 PM

Making excuses is a great way to get fired or never promoted in the real world. My boss doesn't pay me to come up with "reasons" why shit isn't getting done. He's paying me to get shit done, if I can't get the shit done then he'll find someone who can.

This is pretty much how it goes when you have people working for you.

PS - Started as a biomedical engineering major, graduated with a BA in English Lit.

[Edited on December 3, 2011 at 7:52 PM. Reason : asdfasd]

12/3/2011 7:49:20 PM