A question, or poll if you will:
Any of you ever feel you've definitely made the right/wrong career choice?

And on a mostly unrelated note, does anyone else ever leave things to right before the deadline, and spend the time they should be working playing games, sleeping, or being a massive cunt online? I want to know if it's something that's mostly engineer-specific.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:14, 28 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

nope
artists do it, too
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:19, Reply)

But aren't they notoriously disorganised and lazy?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:22, Reply)

yes
but you can be crap up to a deadline without being organised
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:23, Reply)

Right with you on both
especially the arsing about hours before a deadline. I was like that through school university and now in work...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:19, Reply)

I may or may not
Have once again wasted most of the day watching tv, playing mario kart, and cooking dinner. Nope, not at all.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:21, Reply)

i find online flash games
excellent for such a purpose. current obsession: www.thegamehomepage.com/play/combine/
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:24, Reply)

I quite often get semi-addicted to those tower defence games
can be quite mesmerising... The balloons 3 effort was my favourite.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 8:46, Reply)

Cooking dinner is most definately not a waste of time.

( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:45, Reply)

I was one of those cunts at uni
who would do the work before the deadline, preventing me from getting stressed out. I would do the minimum required and get stoned as fuck while everyone else was panicking.

The night before a 9am exam I would finish my token revision at about 6 or 7pm, smoke bongs until midnight, get up, take the exam, leaving before the end.

I have a 2:1 MEng in Civil Engineering.

Feel free to direct hatred and comments of smugness
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:25, Reply)

This is kind of my general approach
But possibly with more procrastination, and less drugs. In fact definitely less drugs. You are a civil engineer though. Hmm. Heard some interesting stories about your kind.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:29, Reply)

I'm not a typical civil engineer
I'm a bit more arty and musicy

with a lot of engineers it's what they are, whereas it's just what I do
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 21:57, Reply)

Also
Have you had to be doing loads of flood defence stuff for idiots after the end-of-year floods?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:37, Reply)

flood defence generally isn't that reactionary
boscastle was an exception I think.

the EA will have fairly solid ideas of where they think defences should go and we will do some modelling and cost/benefit analysis to see if it'll get funding, and if it's worth it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 22:02, Reply)

2:1 MOng in Uncivil Smugness

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:37, Reply)

Have you ever thrown books at anybody?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:43, Reply)

Yes
But not customers.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:50, Reply)

Aww, gutted
I'd love to see that in a library. It would make my day if I ever bothered to visit one.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:51, Reply)

It's ok at colleagues for fun
But in this day and age you'd get sued for throwing books at students.
One of the little shits may in return throw one of our many law books at us.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:55, Reply)

And in either sense, that would be bad
I imagine law books are pretty big. We got told off for throwing wind up planes around our studio area once :(
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:57, Reply)

I got told off for being spun round on a chair
whilst trying to get my leg over my head and singing Wuthering Heights.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 21:00, Reply)

Can't say we've ever tried that
We do have the World's Spinniest Seats ^TM now. I think about 20 spins from one push is the current record.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 21:03, Reply)

I spun loads
It was ace
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 21:09, Reply)

That describes me to a T sadly
I wish I was one of those hard working types with their fancy revision timetables and the like
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:27, Reply)

i have a traffic light
coded 'to do list', a bit like Arnold Rimmer

i usually spend time arsing about with the order of things and what colour they should be. This is not productive.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 20:29, Reply)

Definitely
made the right career choice, as I get to do my job in my pajamas. *smugs* As for deadlines, I hide from deadlines. Under the sofa.
(katfink, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 5:29, Reply)

Definitely made the wrong career choice
as it involves working with a lot of women. While this may sound like a Don Juan's dream, it does in fact involve intense office politics (read: cutthroat bitchiness) that I can never get my head around.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 8:50, Reply)

'Career choice'
would suggest intent. I took a job and then ten years went by.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 9:39, Reply)

Backed myself into a corner with my career choice..
Took a job because it was a dead cert way of getting off the phones doing tech support and I convinced myself I'd leave to go elsewhere after a year. Needless to say I didn't and I've over specialised in an IT backwater of a job. No similar jobs in a 100 mile radius and I'm being made redundant.

Procrastination? Step this way. Smashed out my dissertation three weeks before it was due in a proplus assisted frenzy. I was still typing at 3am the night before the deadline.
(barnaby_kettleworth, Wed 13 Jan 2010, 10:41, Reply)