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#102 Oct 14 2010 at 8:17 PM Rating: Good

Nadenu

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I've tended bar off and on for years. I think now I'm going to apply to be an engineer at ORNL.

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#103 Oct 14 2010 at 9:19 PM Rating: Excellent

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By far the longest learning curve for new engineers starting work here is not adapting their engineering knowledge to the specific tasks they are being asked to perform

I'm a jack of all trades engineer (BME), but my program and every other program I've heard of does a ******** of problem based learning in this day and age. By far the hardest part of my job and my college friend's jobs (BME/IE/Physics/AE/CE/ME/EE) has been learning domain specific knowledge once you start to specialize.

Don't get bogged down in thinking "this is only an engineering problem" though, there are tons of other fields (law, medicine, chemistry and CS come to mind) where once people get out in the real world they become extremely specialized in one area of their field and it's not easy to switch to something else, even if it's semi-related.

The types of jobs where it would be easy to switch would be menial **** like retail/bar-tending, pretty much any liberal arts field, management, or standardized fields like accounting.

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