<p>Well as of Now I'm pretty much a slacker and a bad writer, I do enough to get the job done but most of the time I won't go above and beyond unless the subject really interest me or its highly recommended that I do so. I can work hard and be a good team player if needed and my DISC peronality profiler says I'm a Supporter.</p>
<p>I wanted to do something in science for a while since I was a kid but didn't truly get it until my 10th grade when I fully realized that becoming a Scientist wasn't really me( I want to things that actually help people now or atleast soon not in the next twenty years) and that Bioengineering wasn't what I hoped it be(I thought I'd be cloning things all day and making millions doing so). In my 11th Grade I sat down and looked up careers in which I still be a scientist but actually apply what I did instead of passing it off to some other guys. I saw a topic talking About how Enginneers and Scientist and read the topic and decided That Engineering was my thing but now its getting harder.</p>
<p>All the Engineers(An AE,Civil E,A PHD ME) I spoke to told me they liked it but also told me I'd be working so entire days in front of a computer and but then I went to a trip and talked to a civil Eng and he's there doing what looks like a mechanics job by checking bolts and looking at the helicopter to see if everything is in place but he told me even though he can do that that he couldn't build the entire helicopter by himself and I was lost because if you understand where the parts go should you be able to put them together?</p>
<p>I talked to the PHD ME and she told me that she had a variety of jobs from Drafting buildings to going into sewer systems and checking things there. She then told me Engineers do many things and there is no one answer but then my thing is What engineer deal with how fast an Airplanes, Rockets, and shuttle flies and there acceleration?</p>
<p>I don't want to a Mechanic because I find it a waste of time and everyone I know tells me I have the ability to do more and a Mechanic just isn't enough. I want to know how things work not just how to fix and build them but I don't want to sit in front of a computer all day.</p>
<p>“I was lost because if you understand where the parts go should you be able to put them together?”</p>
<p>Well you can collect or re-collect the desktop pc parts (CASE MOTHERBOARD HD DVDR … ETC) but can you build the cpu ?
even you know how, can you do that alone? whats the cost? … etc
so its now easy as you think.</p>
<p>“I want to know how things work not just how to fix and build them but I don’t want to sit in front of a computer all day”</p>
<p>I think that is the most important sentence you said.</p>
<h1>1 most people who fix things or machines know how the thing they fix works.</h1>
<h1>2 what you want about knowing how things work didnt mean working !! like some one have an idea but he didnt do it!!</h1>
<p>So take it step by step, you need to know basics then you can invent, build or produce things.</p>
<p>I’m going to go with the idea that your question is, “Am I fit to be an engineer?” and say that it’s really up to you and what your abilities are. You’re going to need to work.</p>
<p>I’m also going to pick on the one phrase where you said that most engineers work all day in front of a computer and say that you probably talked to the wrong engineers. There are plenty of engineers who go out in the field and do things to make a difference. Also, they’re making a difference <em>now</em>.</p>
<p>I’m a structural engineer, dabbling in civil engineering right now. I’m working on putting together a final draft of a report that’ll tell UTMB-Galveston (a medical school and hospital complex that was blasted by Hurricane Ike last year… really depressing to go down there and walk around) how to fix things up and protect themselves against future storms, and while it did involve a lot of time writing the report and meeting with other engineers to coordinate things, it also involved spending several days down there crawling over everything. And this is a project that will very definitely help people <em>now</em>. Not in 20 years. This is getting a whole hospital complex, a whole community, back on its feet, and giving it some confidence to go forward and do what it needs to do-- medicine.</p>
<p>There are jobs like that in most fields of engineering; you just have to be willing to put in some really hard work (slacking time is over if you want a good job doing cool things that help people now), some desk time, and keep your eyes out for the type of hands-on, helping-people-now jobs that you’re looking for.</p>
<p>If that doesn’t answer your question, then I’m still not really sure what your question is… Work on communication. And fewer run-on sentences.</p>
<p>Yeah I got carried away but I have so many questions to ask and those people I talk to are the only ones I can actually reach on a regular basis.</p>