When you join an engineering team, you'll spend a large portion of your time maintaining legacy systems. Forget all the cool things you learned in school!
Series: A String of Unfavorable Roles
Popular business literature often depicts ageism as something that only happens to people over 40. In my experience, no one is safe from age discrimination.
Ever been asked to finish work by some impossible deadline only to be forced to wait on everyone else? If so, welcome to the military mentality.
When engineering is all that is pushed in modern society, you can probably imagine why the field is full of arrogance. I'm here to tell you that engineering isn't something to get too proud of.
If you've had a chance to read the Military Mentality article, then you know I can't stand the inefficiencies of project management. When I was an engineer, some days I'd buried in work while other...
Since I've been an engineer, I've never once had a decent manager. This article is a tribute to each of them, and their miserable management.