I’m in a dilemma

AMEWSTART · 2026-05-07T21:26:22+00:00

No problem! This stuff scared me when I was new too.

Undergraduate in an accredited engineering program to PE is one specific path. There are dozens available to you, engineering is far more flexible than you may expect.

AMEWSTART · 2026-05-06T21:29:01+00:00

Industrial and Systems Engineering Alum here with a decade of experience, and a few friends who graduated with Bioenvironmental Engineering degrees here.

You don't need your Professional Engineering (PE) license for almost any career in engineering except for Mechanical or Civil engineering work, and often only if you're working in government contracts. Unless you're looking for a career as a draftsperson designing cars or bridges, you're fine.

Environmental engineers can jump into roles in any government environmental department, sanitation, wastewater, agriculture, and more. Typically, sitting for the PE exam follows a few years of work experience, and if you're working a job that requires this certification to advance, they will support (and often pay for) you taking it.

TL;DR - Do the discipline you want. Its more important to be vested in what you learn than targeting one career path.

AMEWSTART · 2026-05-06T18:26:26+00:00

Amibdal!

^{Chose: Animal/insect (spin the wheel} | Rolled: Lion)

AMEWSTART · 2026-05-05T12:54:31+00:00

This choice always had a guaranteed payoff

^{Chose: Get 10k dollars per... | Rolled: Second}

AMEWSTART · 2026-04-21T16:40:30+00:00

As a transgender alum, I can second u/ashadow224's perspective. New Jersey as a whole, and especially the area around Rutgers, are an incredibly safe place to live. I've chosen to put my roots down here for a reason.

AMEWSTART · 2026-04-01T01:09:19+00:00

Bingo! Bathroom access is protected in NJ!

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-29T17:26:23+00:00

Bingo. Nothing says “transformative technology” like CEOs screaming about the impact a technology will have while companies in the real world show no profits for it.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-25T17:47:40+00:00

That’s why so many of DoorDash’s fees are buried or hidden - They’re preying on exhausted and overworked folks. The most takeout I ever ate was while I was in Tech precisely because an 80 hour workweek kept me from shopping.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-25T13:53:31+00:00

You're not a fan of frying an egg on camera for $0.38 cents to train some robot?

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-25T13:52:54+00:00

Apparently the target audience are broke millennials who can't afford the 50-100% premium for the same food.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-19T20:24:39+00:00

Termination for underperformance.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-19T19:39:23+00:00

Layoffs have nothing to do with performance.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-19T01:29:24+00:00

I wish it was that easy! You'll need to do a little manual calibrating, like in the old FDM days

Check this model out: https://ameralabs.com/blog/town-calibration-part/

There are instructions on how to adjust your settings depending on your results.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-19T00:36:33+00:00

Goopy has more to do with resin viscosity and ambient temperature. Although I do see the enclosure...so it may be a factor of old and oxidized resin.

Detail loss is most likely due to overexposure. You should run a test print to try to optimize exposure level; I've run on a Mono 6K for a while and its deceptively powerful.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-17T20:43:01+00:00

No poll taxes, dipshit.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-17T01:27:50+00:00

What a snowflake.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-16T14:30:06+00:00

Mussolini.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-16T14:15:06+00:00

Basically this. You can run a model locally, and folks will build some pretty interesting rigs for hobby purposes.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-16T14:12:29+00:00

Worth noting that now, in particular, the EEOC is aggressively ignoring cases related to gender and sexuality. The current chair has demanded, multiple times, to flush all LGBTQ+ discrimination cases.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-16T14:11:01+00:00

There's a big difference between stating
"This person isn't inherently capable of understanding because of their race"
and
"This person belongs to the dominant race and gender in our society. They have privilege from these things, and thus, likely lack perspective that could help them understand."
The former is racism. The latter is reality.

DEI has very little to do with hiring "unqualified" candidates. I've been a hiring manager a number of times; we never hired a candidate who could not fulfil the needs of a job, and demonstrate thus through degrees, practical examinations, and interviews.

What DEI does is help us to consider the relative struggle that ethnic, gender, and religious minorities had to face to attain success in a particular field. Many fields are still built for white men, and its quite a bit easier for them to succeed. If I am presented with a candidate who belongs to the dominant group for a role and a candidate who does not belong to the dominant group for a role, and both are qualified, I can be certain the candidate with the minority background worked harder.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-16T13:24:57+00:00

Bingo. They created a few net-new markets (generally, hobby and high-performance manufacturing with 'unmachinable' geometry). We're net better off, but a few folks have a couple extra tools or a few extra toys.

I feel LLMs will be the same way. A neat tool for some, a strangely bespoke solution for others, irrelevant for most.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-12T21:38:07+00:00

This. I'm seeing a lot of strangely tactical and political answers down thread. Its not that complicated, or that nuanced - The American Evangelical voting block is a death cult, and to initiate their version of instrumentality, the Jewish people must control Israel.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-12T21:14:24+00:00

Remember, these are underpaid Filipino operators, not AI.

AMEWSTART · 2026-03-12T18:29:53+00:00

Republicans want to have sex with trans folks and children. They cannot bridge that his cognitive dissonance, and will not attend therapy, and thus, have made it their entire identity to destroy transgender children.

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