re: #250 HappyWarrior

I’m going with out-of-touch trust fund hipster. The one that has mommy and daddy supporting them.

I know two married couples I talk to.

One is Muslim, with a little one of the way in 8-9 months. She’s a High School Teacher while getting education to be a Doctor. He is in the Air Force (and, like me, a convert).

The other is Christian. She’s a speech pathologist, working for a Master’s. He is an…engineer. Also, they get a crapton of support from family. I know this because, once or twice a week, I see an FB status about how they are spending time with His or Hers family.

After nuts like these guys, along with my own dad, I am skeptical of Engineers. They seem to be smart in a very narrow band of Math and Science, and completely nuts outside of it. Hell, the Challenger Disaster had a hint of this:

The Challenger accident has frequently been used as a case study in the study of subjects such as engineering safety, the ethics of whistle-blowing, communications, group decision-making, and the dangers of groupthink. It is part of the required readings for engineers seeking a professional license in Canada and other countries. Roger Boisjoly, the engineer who had warned about the effect of cold weather on the O-rings, left his job at Morton Thiokol and became a speaker on workplace ethics. He argues that the caucus called by Morton Thiokol managers, which resulted in a recommendation to launch, “constituted the unethical decision-making forum resulting from intense customer intimidation.” For his honesty and integrity leading up to and directly following the shuttle disaster, Roger Boisjoly was awarded the Prize for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Many colleges and universities have also used the accident in classes on the ethics of engineering.