Monday, August 6, 2012

Engineering Lessons

Image courtesy of Kriss Szkurlatowski; 12frame.eu

Ten things I wish someone had told me about engineering:
  1. Contractors and salesmen have all the money. – There’s a reason why contractors and salesmen drive nice cars, live in big houses and take nice holidays.  It’s one thing to design a building on paper, it’s another thing to actually build it or sell the equipment that goes into what was designed.  When I started in the training program at Buffalo Forge, I never understood while all the goals of the American trainees were to go into sales.  Guess what!  I get it now.