Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Upward Mobility

Here's a nice career arc:


I blame the gradual decline of the image of engineers on (a) the computer geeks and (b) engineers dumb enough to confuse conservatism in design (meaning fail-safe design or minimizing the danger from failure) with "conservatism" as defined by Republicans.

10 comments:

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Can I add the trend toward pilfering the word "architect" by IT geeks, led by Bill Gates?

N__B said...

Absolutely. They're ashamed of their own work so they try to steal the glory of archit...Hahahaha. I almost made it.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

go back to your train, engineer.

Rusty Shackleford said...

Hey, some of us had fathers who were architects!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

if the economy was like now, no wonder he got into such disreputable work.

stackozone said...

still looking for iOS developer? might know one, non-assholish-type.

N__B said...

Stackozone -

Yeah. My email is NB64NB at gmail.

N__B said...

And thanks.

Dragon-King Wangchuck said...

Heh heh. Erected. Heh. Pumping ststion. Heh.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I know of at least one engineer who was liberal enough to marry a zombie.

That was before Proposition Z though.