Arcadia Posted September 9, 2021 Posted September 9, 2021 My kids main criteria even before this pandemic is can work from home 🤣 My husband’s engineering work involves hardware so he has to go back office at times. 1 Quote
Kassia Posted September 9, 2021 Posted September 9, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Arcadia said: My kids main criteria even before this pandemic is can work from home 🤣 My husband’s engineering work involves hardware so he has to go back office at times. My adult children are all STEM workers and are working either fully or partly from home (ds2 is an electrical engineer so also involves hardware, which requires him to go in). DH is also STEM and has worked from home since 2009 (this was his dream for a long time). Ds1 was also working remotely pre-pandemic. His girlfriend is not STEM and started working remotely after Covid and definitely prefers it. She was on the road all the time before and doesn't miss it at all.  My youngest (also STEM) is in college and had a remote internship last summer and is hoping for the same next summer. It's so nice if you like that. Ds2 prefers his situation where he's in the office at times. He doesn't like working remotely all the time. His gf (STEM) is starting a new job and is the same. She's starting remotely but is anxious to be in person.   Edited September 9, 2021 by Kassia 1 Quote
Eos Posted September 9, 2021 Posted September 9, 2021 49 minutes ago, cintinative said: This is a joke y'all. 😃 Sent to chem eng ds and chemist ddil, thanks! Ambivalent about safety, uh huh... 1 Quote
mom2scouts Posted September 10, 2021 Posted September 10, 2021 My two oldest work in STEM fields. "What are your feelings on safety?" has me laughing although I'm not sure electrical engineers care about safety either. 1 Quote
Arcadia Posted September 10, 2021 Posted September 10, 2021 1 hour ago, mom2scouts said: My two oldest work in STEM fields. "What are your feelings on safety?" has me laughing although I'm not sure electrical engineers care about safety either. My electrical engineering husband does but he is a reliability engineer. My first degree is in civil engineering and I’m sure everyone hope civil engineers care about safety. For my alma mater, environmental engineering is subsumed under civil engineering and there are quite a lot of maths used in that field. 1 Quote
cintinative Posted September 10, 2021 Author Posted September 10, 2021 Just now, Arcadia said: My electrical engineering husband does but he is a reliability engineer. My first degree is in civil engineering and I’m sure everyone hope civil engineers care about safety. For my alma mater, environmental engineering is subsumed under civil engineering and there are quite a lot of maths used in that field. I had the same issue. I was an environmental engineering major and I love math. 😃  I used to work with a bunch of geologists and I couldn't quite figure out how to place them on the diagram. On the author's original post, the meteorologists and geologists were commenting that they were left out and people were trying to create extra branches for them. There were actually some interesting comments on how to further break down the engineering blob into "things that move" and "things that should not move (civil)". LOL   Quote
Arcadia Posted September 10, 2021 Posted September 10, 2021 24 minutes ago, cintinative said: There were actually some interesting comments on how to further break down the engineering blob into "things that move" and "things that should not move (civil)". LOL Traffic engineering was also subsumed under civil engineering. Timing the traffic lights and OSPF (Open Shortest Path First, The Seven Bridges of Königsberg, traveling salesman problem) had quite a bit of math (graph theory) involved.  My final year dissertation was in the field of traffic engineering.   Meteorologist and geologist might go under people who love nature. I actually picked engineering because it is applied maths. My backup choice of major was computational physics. 1 Quote
Clarita Posted September 11, 2021 Posted September 11, 2021 15 hours ago, mom2scouts said: "What are your feelings on safety?" has me laughing although I'm not sure electrical engineers care about safety either. I think safety for an electrical engineer is a learned skill after many years of learning on the job... (Both because operations/factory will ask you to think about it and well some things really hurt.) Based purely on personal experience. 1 Quote
Eos Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 Re safety - both ds and ddil work at a national lab with nuclear engineering components. Yes, they are safety nuts at work! But ds loved to blow things up as a young person, is a mountaineer and climbing guide, played rugby through college - so risk mitigation is maybe a better way to phrase it. 3 Quote
Not_a_Number Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 Hahahah, I'll note that doing math and then going into hedge funds is a pretty good way to get some serious money 😉 . 1 Quote
Roadrunner Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 19 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said: Hahahah, I'll note that doing math and then going into hedge funds is a pretty good way to get some serious money 😉 . Do say more 🤣 Quote
Not_a_Number Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 11 minutes ago, Roadrunner said: Do say more 🤣 That’s all I got, lol!!! But I constantly had hedge funds recruiting me as a math contest person. 2 Quote
Roadrunner Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Not_a_Number said: That’s all I got, lol!!! But I constantly had hedge funds recruiting me as a math contest person. And you are hanging out with us? Priorities woman!!! Go make some millions!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 1 2 Quote
Not_a_Number Posted September 13, 2021 Posted September 13, 2021 27 minutes ago, Roadrunner said: And you are hanging out with us? Priorities woman!!! Go make some millions!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hahahah, weirdly enough, I was never interested in doing that. 2 Quote
cintinative Posted January 26, 2023 Author Posted January 26, 2023 Bump for 2023 because it's funny 1 1 1 Quote
smfmommy Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 Ha! I wish there was one for non-stem majors. My oldest would enjoy that. We also need a more detailed tree under computer science. So many options and it might help my extremely linear thinker see his options even if it is a joke. 1 1 Quote
lewelma Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 (edited) They need to have an arrow from physics to finance. Apparently, that is a pathway for those ready to make some money! Edited January 27, 2023 by lewelma 1 Quote
EmilyGF Posted January 27, 2023 Posted January 27, 2023 8 hours ago, lewelma said: They need to have an arrow from physics to finance. Apparently, that is a pathway for those ready to make some money! DH is as astrophysics prof. A guy he worked closely with left for finance. One summer both were posting their pictures on Facebook with their boats. DH had an inflatable canoe, his ex-colleague had a high-end speedboat! Emily 2 2 Quote
Arcadia Posted January 28, 2023 Posted January 28, 2023 On 1/26/2023 at 9:08 PM, lewelma said: They need to have an arrow from physics to finance. Apparently, that is a pathway for those ready to make some money! Same for engineering and maths. Many that I know went into the finance/investment fields. My cousin (mechanical engineering) used to work in investment and his son (industrial engineering) works at BoA investment arm. The pay is much better, much faster so good for people who want to make more money while in their 20s. 2 Quote
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