I am a writer who has always worked as an engineer because there are many writers and few engineers.
But most writers aren't any good.
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This is the cross of the highly-elastic brain.
The tendency to do what is needed most, rather than what you would be best at.
I am a musician who always wanted to be an engineer.
I have a love and hate relationship with this topic.
That's a typical combination, tho. Both are math heavy.
I tend toward philosophical, architectural, and economic writing, so I suppose that's my "math heaviness".
Not sure that it is that typical since I ended up on my own and everyone from the art field I used to be close with it out of sight and I'm digging into cryptography, blockchain tech, cyber security and privacy like a madman. Yet it feels to me like something totally logical 😂
I know it mostly the other way around: so many engineers are artistic or musically-inclined.
Yes. That is very true. I'll drop you a link to one specific music and creator I like.
Most engineers aren’t engineers and any good either, rather ChatGPT pimps.
I’m often embarrassed by our profession (software engineering). It’s just too young. Mechanical engineering has 200 years of regulation between exploding steam engines and today. We are just tinkerers.
To be honest, I'm a better engineer than most engineers are. That's why I keep sliding into it, despite the best of intentions.
But I'm good at the extremely high-level of it. Architecture and system/process design, that sort of thing. Not at coding. Coding is Handwerk and I'm a Künstlerin.