{"id":3025,"date":"2017-05-08T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:23:12","slug":"the-curse-of-being-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/the-curse-of-being-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Being an Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not all glamour.<\/h3>\n

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Engineers solve problems. Thanks to that analytical thinking and restless motivation we have pushed our species forward.<\/p>\n

It’s like an instinct, something that we do without actively triggering it. When we start listening to a problem, at the back of our mind we are already coming up with a solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s why you should not look for an engineer when you just want to vent out. By time you end the conversation, you’ll leave with a plan, complete with milestones. Probably you didn’t want a solution, maybe not even advice — you just wanted someone to listen to you and feel your pain.<\/p>\n

A photographer<\/strong> looks around and notices photographic opportunities. The eyes are trained to notice that among everything else.<\/p>\n

An engineer<\/strong> looks around and notices flaws, inefficiencies — in a word, problems. The brain is biased to notice and act upon them.<\/p>\n

Now comes the “problem”.<\/p>\n