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I don't usually post random crap like this(well, except when I'm up all night), but this just struck me. I'm a psychology and aviation student. I'm taking a class that is cross-listed as psych/aviation/industrial engineering. It meets in the Mechanical Engineering building here. Now I know why people are engineers. This building is HUGE, clean, beautiful, and everybody in this class gets their own big roomy workstation with a rolly office chair and a nice computer. Most of my psych classes meet in rooms where the desks collapse if you lean the wrong way. I'm thinking of changing majors just so I can sit in this room more. And, I'm in the middle of class posting on DZ.com. Groovy?

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I'm thinking of changing majors just so I can sit in this room more. And, I'm in the middle of class posting on DZ.com. Groovy?


Just wait until you graduate and have to work an engineering firm. You are going to be sitting in a 8' x 8' cubicle just like everyone else.

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Yeah... 3.5 years is all it takes to get a 8*8 under an air conditioning vent and next to the leaking pipes :ph34r:

Oh yeah.. the last person is'nt done moving yet so i have mine and their stuff in here. How do you people do with all the space? Its HUGE in this cube compaired to the old one!
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So I'm sitting here in my 8x10 cube at work where I'm an engineer and realizing that my workspace in college was nicer. The irony is that one of the projects we're going after is the redesign of the engineering building of my "college." Oh yeah, I'm going to screw them over.

Damn, I wish I were back in college.
"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

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:)I drive a 2002 Kenworth T600 with a fully intregrated sleeper that has more room in it than the average japanese apartment.
No BOSS looking over my shoulder,no coworkers to put up with and as long as I don't wreck the truck the office weenies leave me alone.BUT,there is the DOT and all them hungry BEARS...
thanks,and remember "If you have it,a truck delivered it".

ChileRelleno-Rodriguez Bro#414
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In my office we rate your stature by these measures:
Number of chairs - The President has 4. I had 3 but someone demoted me B|.
Private office or cube - We have too much off space so unless your a part-timer, you get a private office (with a real door!).
Personal printer - the holy grail of Officedom.
2 days ago I completed the collection by getting a color printer! It's a major step up. I feel like I got a promotion.
-Carbon

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Well, going by those rating I have:

10x10 cube with several 100Mb connections

P4 computer and laptop

HP 2200D Laserjet (Fast & MINE! ALL MINE!)

The ability to order any equipment or tools I need, no questions asked.

I get to get out of the office several times a month to travel for projects.

My hours are 8-ish to 5-ishB| and as long as I show back up from lunch sometime before the end of the day it's all good.

And most importantly, if I see training being offered somewhere that I think might be interesting (Cisco, etc...) I get to go. We have a huge training budget.

Kris
Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

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I'm a mechanical enginerd. Been out of school 5 years now. I started in the corporate office in Phila, PA... cube, mochaccino machine, cute girls in marketing, khakis and all that crap. Just when I started getting bored - a year later - they offered a position as a mfg. engineer/quality mgr. in Florida. At 24 knowing noone here I took it. I have a treehouse style office with ants. The plant has no A/C. Most of the hourly workers are right off the boat from somwhere. It's dirty, out of the corp. loop, and annoying but I go to work in shorts and a t-shirt, no one cares if I look hung over, no one trying to out do you, and my immediate boss is 1200 miles away. There has to a skydiving related job for an engineer that has design, project management, and manufacturing experience but I haven'f found it yet although I've only been at it for a few months. Anybody have experience with designing/manufacturing custom rigs? Anyone have capital?


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