An idea I have been interested in for a long time is a collection of Engineer's stories.
The people I have met are amazing people with incredible stories. Over the course of a project I get to know and make many new friendships. It is these people that encouraged me to write but I thought again. They should write too.
I became a structural engineer by "not-knowing" and a bit of shoulder-shrugging. I love solving problems and making things work simply. My family were accountants and sales type, not engineering at all. I did my first degree never realising really what it is that a structural engineer did. Embarassing. I was forever looking for the book that told me what it would be like.
I want to collect your stories before it is "lost":
How did you become an engineer?
The best point of your career?
Did you travel?
What would you do differently?
Your favourite project
Your worse project
Your advice to the future generation?
Do you enjoy what you do?
It would be diverse, interesting, inspirational, amazing and who knows what it would mean to any one reader!
Over 300,000 engineering students graduate every year, between China and India alone. Do they know what they are gettting into? I think a chicken soup book for engineers would be fantastic promotion.
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That's it!.. the book I was looking for. Although it hasn't been written:( I'll be sure to contribute if I ever get through these classes.
The classes will never stop! Always learning.
Your contribution is always welcome, I will always listen. Your experiences at either ends of the career is always wanted.
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