Sorry, I was (obviously, I hope) in a funk, and thus predisposed to reading things negatively.
My contact with PMs and managerial types both have all reflected the "moving up=giving signs of co-option", which I suspect is largely invisible to them, but still... don't get me started on assumptions of convention as standardization or naturalization (unless you want a long, rambling, profanity filled rant). ZB, ties, which are no big deal to many, are symbolically worse than a dead albatross, to me, for me.
My problem with engineering, as I understand it, is that one, I genuinely like and need interaction with people, and all the engineers I've worked proclaim their love of their jobs being tied to not having to deal with people. Secondly (and this is probably an excercise of personal preference, if not privilege), days of nonstop linear analysis and scanning screen upon screen of code for an errant semicolon sounds like torture to me. I get that a lot of people (one of whom I live with) genuinely enjoy that, but...
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My contact with PMs and managerial types both have all reflected the "moving up=giving signs of co-option", which I suspect is largely invisible to them, but still... don't get me started on assumptions of convention as standardization or naturalization (unless you want a long, rambling, profanity filled rant). ZB, ties, which are no big deal to many, are symbolically worse than a dead albatross, to me, for me.
My problem with engineering, as I understand it, is that one, I genuinely like and need interaction with people, and all the engineers I've worked proclaim their love of their jobs being tied to not having to deal with people. Secondly (and this is probably an excercise of personal preference, if not privilege), days of nonstop linear analysis and scanning screen upon screen of code for an errant semicolon sounds like torture to me. I get that a lot of people (one of whom I live with) genuinely enjoy that, but...