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[–] 213 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As a PhD who has tried doing home improvement projects, it’s the most believable thing in the film.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Actually some of the most naïve people I've ever met were theretofore academically successful.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Some pleeb shouted at me, "I thought you were an engineer!" And I shouted back, "A software engineer!" while I hammer a nail with my shoe.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m a regular engineer and yeah I pull such shit. Listen, there’s a reason I tell everyone not to do what I do.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The difference between a regular idiot doing a dangerous job and an engineer doing a dangerous job is the engineer knows which parts of the job he's risking imminent death on. There may often be no other difference.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    When it comes to an engineer doing a dangerous job in a domain other than his or her own, I would say that all the engineer knows is how bad things can be fucked up when one is trying to do expert stuff outside one's own domain, because they've been in a position were they were the experts and some non-expert was saying things and trying stuff for their expert domain.

    After seeing others do it in one's own expert domain one generally realizes that "maybe, just maybe, that's exactly how I look outside my domain of expertise to the experts of that domain when I open my big fat mouth".

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Really?

    Genuinely asking, I'm just an engineer... with very very bad grades. Passed was enough for me.

    Once a professor asked me if I wanted to take the exam again because it was clear that I knew more than what I showed on the exam (a lot of 2 + 2 = 5 mistakes, I was fairly good at that and owe most of my low grades to that). I asked him if I passed, he said yes. Fuck that shit, I'm taking that grade and parading it across town, wooohoo 🥳.

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