Are You An Engineer?

Lately I have noticed that quite a few coin collectors at the coin forums I frequent (NGC, Coin People and Coin Talk) make their living as engineers.

Maybe it's because we have a little extra money to indulge in this hobby. Not as much as a doctor, lawyer or investment banker, but a little more than most people. Maybe it's because we appreciate the process of minting a coin. Who knows?

Simple poll, either you are an engineer or you are not. Retired engineers count.

Please vote! And for the record I am an engineer, 35 years in recording studios and 3 in television.

 

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Nope not me.. I just know how to drive the Train :whistle:

Now on the other hand my Wife is an Industrial Engineer..shes really does not like to collect much of anything except Cook Books.


RickieB

 

I'm not an engineer (my dad is though).

I'm interested for different reasons (History graduate) and numismatics is my profession...

 

I am not an engineer, but I did go to the U of I for a year trying to be a mechanical engineer. Sadly, between professors that could not speak English, lectures so big it was hard to fall behind and me wanting to party to much I only lasted that one year.

 

Finance. Does that count? encil:

 

I'm not one, either. I'm a Chef.... I run a kitchen with about 30 staff.

 

I was a wannabe engineer.
Trying to learn physics with calculus AND calculus at the same time did me in.

I ended up as a teacher/cartographer/computer specialist.

 

I am an engineer, MS Chemical Engineering, with emphasis on polymer science. Have spent 28 years developing specialty adhesives for electronic and automotive applications. My patents (7) have made the company I work for rich, but not me.
I also have am MBA and speak 4 languages fluently, but I really do feel I could have done a lot better in life I had become a lawyer, (or a coin dealer).

 

No I am not an engineer but I did work for a civil engineer as a surveyor while I was in college getting my accounting degree.

 

as the old joke goes:

I were one. Retired now.

 

I'm a non-degree mechanical engineer... don't know if that counts. You learn enough "on the job" over forty years to lay claim to the title. And I agree with Doug.. I've had to deal with so many "fresh out of college" engineers over the years... their designs are either unmanufacturable or cost prohibited; as far as I'm concerned, every five years of OJT is equal to at least one year of college.

 

My wife is currently studying to be an engineer. Tough course of study.

 

The Navy had me glueing monkey brains to computers by 1970.

Did some BioMedical machine building/testing/development (with all the patent right going to "We The People") for over 25 years.

Started towards a Piled Higher & Deeper in electrophysiology but all my committee caught something/died before I finished so I retired.

 

No, thank God I am not - now before you'all get your feathers

No, thank God I am not - now before you'all get your feathers in an uproar let me explain myself.
I have nothing against engineers, I mean somebodies got to do it, right? Plus like everything there are good ones, bad ones, and average ones.

I live a few minutes from Oak Ridge and myself worked at TVA for 28 years. I have many relatives, friends and coworkers that are and were engineers. Also I have noticed that many coin collectors and dealers that are also engineers, some of my dealers at the show are engineers.

The thing that drives me nuts is some of them that compartmenteltlize (I know it's misspelled) every single responce, question or phrase. Now I admit I'm very liberal and creative type person and not an absolute fact based thinker but engineers can drive me crazy. It's as if they strive so hard to avoid an incorrect answer that they never actually get to the answer, or by the time they do no one cares any longer.

I'll give you an example - I used to work with one guy, an engineer and I would report to him "that I noticed a tree lodged next to the west spill gate on such and such dam yesterday". Then he would say this exact thing: ""you saw a tree, lodged, spill gate, dam, which side, when?"" It was if every single thing had to be placed or store in his engineer brain just so before he could even respond or comment. One of my coin dealers does the same thing, I'll say "it's a nice day isn't it"? Then he will say, "well I don't know, maybe, they said something about it getting a little cooler later, at least I think that's what I heard I don't know".

I just don't think that a way and it kills me when they mull over self explantory comments or question at nauseum and go on and on and on. I want to say, hey dumn dumn, the correct answer to a common passing the time type question like "it's a nice day isn't it is"? is yes it is!

I guess that's why they make very good fact checkers and at other types of jobs but it still drives me crazy and that's my own pet peave but I thank God every day that I don't have to suffer like that because 99% of all things in life require that kind of scrutiny.

 

I have an engineering degree (metallurgy) but make my living as a hotelier.

 

Yes, I am by education. Georgia Tech class of '93 w/Computer Science and Computer Engineering minor.

By vocation, no, I'm a sales executive.

 

where are the lines drawn?

While I'm not an engineer (Physicist), I am a member (Fellow) of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). I spend/spent my time doing applied physics (that is, when I'm not working on my coin collection :smile).
So, in the eyes of numismatic engineers does that make me one?

Bob

 

Yeppers, I'm an engineer. University of Texas Chemical Engineering class of '83. Partner in a consulting engineering firm for 16 years (boy, that was interesting).

Now I'm employed telling computer peeps where they made their mistakes. :computer:. Plenty of opportunity there, eh ?

 

A Ramblin' Wreck, huh ? Cool ! My dad graduated from GT. Thanks to the GI Bill, he entered GT (without a high school diploma). He graduated 4 years later - with a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering. Quite a guy, ol' pop.