So you want to be an engineer?
Why?
Do you want to build things?
Do you want to change the world/
It is an amazing feeling
Inventing, creating, building, launching, seeing how it is used.
Using the powers of the universe
Tapping into math and physics and chemistry to manipulate the fabric of the physical world into a product that serves people or nature
Do you want to feel like a god?
Do you want to turn an idea in to a physical object
You can will an item into being, simply by dreaming it up, designing it, and building it
This is an amazing amount of power.
We harness the elements and we understand how they interact with each other.
We study and manipulate the electromagnetic forces around us.
We get to ask questions, and get the freedom to test out our ideas.
We build tools to make ourselves more effective
We have infinite strength as we scale beyond human capability with technology.
Do you believe that anything is possible? You just haven’t figured out how to do it yet?
It does take a certain kind of person.
We are wrong a lot.
We screw up a lot.
We look crazy a lot.
We keep driving.
The vision in our mind consumes us.
It takes stubbornness
It takes creativity
It takes a little bit of dysfunction
I never listen to naysayers. Except to drive me further and harder.
Go ahead, tell me something can’t be done.
It makes me smile.
Let me show you how it can be done.
If I can make an impact, I will.
And then.
Sometimes we are wrong.
Eventually.
After you have pushed miles beyond where everyone else told you to quit.
Sometimes, Eventually, we do have to abandon a path.
Most of the time it is because we just don’t have one ingredient that you need.
You have tapped every person on the planet and discovered that we are 5,10, or 100 years away from the key enabling technology that you needed.
This is where we choose to either redirect and invest in that technology.
Or wait.
A lot of Engineering is also patience.
Acceptance.
And moving on to the next big thing.
When you pull your head up.
After months or years of driving towards that one goal.
You will look around.
And see 100 other things that need to get built or fixed.
And you will move on.
This is the life of an Engineer.
The world needs you.
Don’t let them down by giving up.
What you get out of your labor is up to you.
Do you want glory or riches?
Do you want freedom or fame?
You get to choose the rewards.
The engineering is the same.
Do the work.
Build the world.
Then sell it, promote it, give it away, or hide it.
Just do the work.