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Are engineers this way? Maybe some are, as with any profession, but many aren’t. I actually think it has more to do with the set and setting, than the individual. People are like gases that fill containers, and often the most economically safe, salaried jobs are incidentally containers that would just love to have a “narrow-minded” person do tasks. This is often counter-productive in the long run, but by that point their boss or whomever has gotten what they needed.

The truth is that engineers deal with unknowns, and to do that you have to be extremely creative. Am I alone here in thinking this?




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