Are You An Engineer?

Are You An Engineer?
If these remind you of yourself, it’s a good bet you are an engineer.
  • At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string.
  • In college you thought Spring Break was a metal fatigue failure.
  • The salespeople at Circuit City can’t answer any of your questions.
  • You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
  • You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday.
  • You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
  • You can’t write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.
  • You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
  • You forgot to get a haircut … for 6 months.
  • You have Dilbert comics displayed anywhere in your work area.
  • You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
  • You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
  • You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
  • You know what http:// actually stands for.
  • You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
  • You see a good design and still have to change it.
  • You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.
  • You wear black socks with white tennis shoes (or vice versa).
  • You’re in the back seat of your car, she’s looking wistfully at the moon, and you’re trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.
  • You know what the geosynchronous satellite’s function is.
  • Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
  • You’ve already calculated how much you make per second.
  • You’ve ever tried to repair a $5 radio.