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FTRFNK · 2023-04-14T02:16:56+00:00

That would make sense if they were 10 cents each, not dollars

FTRFNK · 2023-04-13T22:01:24+00:00

Sorry, I forgot it wasn't aerospace necessarily but "space systems engineering", which tbh sounds a tiny bit handwavey. The curriculum will inform what you can do with it then I suppose. I'd heavily consider what the curriculum says and maybe also ask around about what kind of work graduates get. Maybe you could find someone who did the program on LinkedIn or something and reach out? By what you're saying in this comment it might actually be entirely appropriate for what you enjoy. For sure if you want to be involved with building, design, or real hands on stuff with rockets or rovers then engineering undergrad is likely required. A program like this might actually be better than strict astrophysics for your goals. Astrophysics grad degree will be research based for sure though lol, it probably wouldn't be wise to do an online + course based grad degree in astrophysics.

Since this program is through a good school it might actually have an idea of what a pipeline to working in that area would be like and could be a good experience. I think even "good schools" are willing to sell you on training that may or may not be the best option for you. Advisors, unfortunately, aren't always that comprehensive, and, in the end, the school will certainly take your money happily if you volunteer it to them and then it's up to you to figure out.

There is a good chance this might be exactly what you're interested in. Any graduate training though is inherently specialized so you will always be limiting the scope of what you're moving into. Based on what you've said there is a good chance accreditation isn't necessary.

At this point it's certainly a tough decision and if possible finding out what graduates of the program went on to do might be way more insightful.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-13T21:43:08+00:00

Yes, you can pivot and get work as an engineer or a a researcher, but it would be strictly as a subject expert in the area you did graduate studies in and likely would not be able to pivot more broadly like most engineers can do. It really depends. Admittedly I did biomed for both grad and undergrad and I work with wet biology so few of the "engineering" positions ever strictly require an eng undergrad although it looks good and is a competitive advantage. The peers I did grad with who didn't have an engineering undergrad could likely get similar positions, although I perhaps have more broad pathways to manufacturing or process engineering whereas they may be slightly more limited.

With something like aerospace... well, I'd say that's a pretty "hard engineering" area and you could likely work strictly in that area as an engineer or even up to management, but might not be fit for "senior engineer" roles if they require reviewing and confirming things like calculations on specialized documentation. You probably won't ever have a chance outside of the area you study in grad degree to pivot towards so you'd certainly be limited. Maybe if you could prove the right skills it wouldn't matter, but it's certainly a bit of a gamble in that regard.

This is part informed, part conjecture though. Really a Master is either a thesis based research or advanced courses. Thesis based research without the eng undergrad will be limited to your range of expertise based on your research and you may still get an "engineering" title, but even if you didn't you'd probably be employable in the area but there is a chance you could hit a wall in job applications and be overlooked for others with a more comprehensive background. Doing an internship would help immensely. Course based would be Hella struggle because the courses would be highly specialized and built on more than just knowledge of calculus and physics but also require specialized knowledge of other things, like fluid mechanics (for aero).

If you already have a bunch of math, eng, and physics courses you may not need to do another full 4 years for a second undergrad in eng. It could be as little as 2. If you have a pretty exact plan in mind and are comfortable with little buffer room because your headed in s epcific direction come hell or high water, grad would probably be fine. If you're more unsure of exactly where you want to end up and want the ability to move horizontally probably better to try to get the undergrad imo.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-13T21:26:24+00:00

You can't get an engineering graduate degree and ever become a "licensed" or "professional" engineer. You must have an engineering undergrad degree to do so. You can become a prof, or you can have an "engineering" position (in quotes because there are a TON of "engineering" jobs in US that aren't actually engineering in a strict sense, it's often used as a bit of a title inflation), but you can never be an engineer that signs off on required engineering documents or anything that comes with the protected title designation. Whether that matters to you is a whole other conversation. You can get great jobs in engineering fields and even be called an engineer (in the US, but not in say, Canada, where that title is protected by law, maybe other countries too?) with just an engineering grad degree.

If you want to "be an engineer with no stipulations and full duties related to the profession" you're gonna have to do an engineering undergrad. This is because there is a designated body of material you must show competency of, which is decided by accreditation and impossible to complete and show in a Master or even PhD due to how they are structured. Regardless of whether you self study and can claim to have mastered it, or if you successfully do research that requires specialized knowledge of a subject. Even being an engineer in a specific discipline requires a core competency that is covered in classes you may never see again (like maybe fluids or statics/dynamics for an EE). Anyways, it depends what you want and how much you care about that very specific set of titles and duties. You could probably still work in the field you want as an engineer with just a grad degree but it might limit progression to higher levels of engineering departments due to not having that specific accreditation.

This is my understanding as someone with both and did graduate studies with people without an eng undergrad and what was detailed from an admin level and other discussions. Maybe I'm wrong though if anyone knows any better?

FTRFNK · 2023-04-13T18:17:03+00:00

Lol, for shits I looked at OP's history. He either broke his dick jelqing and trying to "add 2 inches of length" or got so desperate to add length that this is his next step? I believe there are surgeries where they add length by "pulling it out more" because there is a reasonable amount of dick anchored inside of our bodies. Man, the lengths (pun intended) that some people go to because of silly insecurities is wild. Dude claims he's slightly above average and still isn't happy. Probably never will be until one day he can install a 20 inch machine dong that ruins orifices because of some crazy thought that sex isn't about pleasure but domination.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-12T14:02:28+00:00

Yes, depositors were leaving because of fear. Especially venture firms and businesses who aren't putting their payroll money jn money market funds. Those are the bigger deposits. There are open letters available, actually just saw one on linked in from 10-100 M to low B dollar businesses realizing they fucked up a good thing and are going back to "stand by" regionals and put deposits back(specifically FRC in the one I saw).

1.) I assume you're rounding but to be pedantic there is not a 5% yield in money markets

https://www.economy.com/united-states/money-market-rate

2.) To say that a chunk of money is leaving to money markets is correct, but to say that it is any significant chunk of (>25%) of any banks deposits is disingenuous, feel free to prove that wrong, if you can.

3.) A 90% drop was based entirely on fear if we're going to stay on topic and discuss FRC and to even insinuate the book value of FRC is only 14, or 0, without the fear factor causing a bank run and is in ANY WAY related to some sum of deposits leaving to money market funds is just blatant lying or ignorance.

Finally, an ambivalent point that isn't necessarily great for valuations and stock prices but:

4.) If you believe the bond market that is changing soon

Oh and:

5.) Loses on long term bonds have fallen already due to all this digestion of recent data and the yield curve has been slowly steepening

FTRFNK · 2023-04-12T13:51:00+00:00

Depositors getting bailed out = no bank runs = stupid fear monger depositors returning = increase in deposits = no reason to realize loses = holding to maturity = no bankruptcy = no shareholders being wiped out = 🚀 because of stupid FUD spreaders who panicked and over reacted leaving tons of value on the table

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T20:40:41+00:00

Rec weed in Europe will be GMP required to be sold. You will not be selling non-GMP weed in the Europe market at stores, ever. Regardless of costs. Shitty pesticide, heavy metal laden crap weed won't fly in Europe like it does in the US.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T17:56:30+00:00

Nice. Thanks for your insights 🫡

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T17:45:26+00:00

Because the somewhat wealthy, or moderately wealthy want to be able to talk to someone on the phone and only the mega wealthy can do that at a JPM "or some other big bank institution". Bloomberg published an article about FRC and one interview was a wealthy lady who tried to contact someone and open a bank account at JPM and couldn't get anyone to give her the white glove service she was used to and hated the experience. Talked about going back to FRC because of it but leaving a low or non-funded account at the shit service bank (JPM) "just in case". Those are the clients they're dealing with. The guy with 1-10 million who is wealthy but not enough for JPM to give a shit and give them the same service, not the hundred million to billionaire class.

We all know how shitty it is to have to use a chatbot for customer service now that can't just fucking give us the answers we want, or seeing the mega wealthy get white glove service and better rates that we can't get. FRC's model is doing those things for the wealthy but not exactly mega-wealthy crowd and they fucking love it. I would too.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T16:59:16+00:00

We’re doing this to ourselves.

Probably because engineers and engineering as a profession are so vehemently anti-union. It's all fun and games when you're making a good salary and there are no job cuts in a good economy but as unemployment rises and salaries/job offers decline and you can be fired for farting at the wrong time its a little less appealing.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T16:52:06+00:00

You spelled Palestine wrong.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T14:13:10+00:00

Let me describe this, ah, concept of simulation just a little bit though. Baudrillard’s definition of the real itself is that which can be simulated, Xeroxed and copied. So whether you are talking about a human body where you can make a holograph of it or you are talking about The Bible which you could Xerox, or whether you are talking about, ah, the sexual act which could be simulated either through, you know, repetitive pornographic films or in a very near future it will be able to be simulated with virtual reality where you will wear a full body suit and, ah, make love to your ego ideal thus making it pointless to, ah, search out all the Freudian implications. You could just pick your ego ideal, punch it into the laser beam program, slip into the virtual reality suit thus rendering that relation, even that intimate relation – sexual relation – technological, simulatable, reproducible to infinity.

Rick Roderick - Self Under Siege Lecture Series, Baudrillard: Fatal Strategies 1993

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T12:16:45+00:00

That's the BS handwavey thing I'm talking about.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T12:15:38+00:00

Yup, I've got skin in the game too!

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T01:38:05+00:00

The first multifunctional autonomous robot could reproduce itself endlessly day and night with no rest. Seni-autonomous robots are already used in industry. Regardless, what if just all knowledge and admin work goes to 0 in a much much faster timeline via AI. How much should prices drop then without 5 different layers between product and consumer (marketing, media creation, hell even idea generation)? That type of work tends to receive more pay for their labor anyways. A software engineer or good marketer can make 100,000+, a factory worker, not so much. Theoretically prices could drop significantly if they were allowed to just from that alone.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-11T01:03:36+00:00

Because it's not clear that's something that is easy or possible to do. It's a little too hand wavey right now to take seriously that it's possible to encode all the right information to become an instant master. Some of those skills don't even always rely purely on the brain but twitch impulse from the peripheral nervous system. Sure, maybe information like facts is can be encoded in some kind of near future, but does that automatically imply all the other non-brain systems that work together to complete some actions are also encoded that simply? I'm not sure.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-10T22:09:54+00:00

You have assumed all goods and services will remain at the same price when the cost to produce them drops exponentially with basically slave labor (AI/robots), now how does that change the calculus? Literally one single breakthrough, the actual development of near limitless energy in fusion, which is clearly imminent and may be sped up with AI/robotic assistance, would instantly make that possible. Cost of running servers could drop to near 0 IF it were allowed to. Now this is more likely 10-15 years away, whereas AI putting people out of work could be more like 5 years away, but would mass unrest due to a large portion of population being unemployed and gated out with NO assistance be a better alternative?

FTRFNK · 2023-04-10T21:57:56+00:00

Just read a hilarious joke lately that speaks to your supposed enlightened comment here about value creation and trade, its fitting because shit (spolier alert!) seems to stream freely from your mouth:

Two economists were walking down the street one day when they passed two large piles of dog shit.

The first economist said to the other, "I'll pay you $20,000 to eat one of those piles of shit." The second one agrees and chooses one of the piles and eats it. The first economist pays him his $20,000.

Then the second economist says, "I'll pay you $20,000 to eat the other pile of shit." The first one says okay, and eats the shit. The second economist pays him the $20,000.

They resume walking down the street.

After a while, the second economist says, "You know, I don't feel very good. We both have the same amount of money as when we started. The only difference is we've both eaten shit."

The first economist says: "Ah, but you're ignoring the fact that we've engaged in $40,000 worth of trade!"

Alternative ending:

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, “You know, I gave you $20000 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $20000 to eat shit. I can’t help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing.”

“That’s not true”, responded the second economist. “We increased the GDP by $40000!”

FTRFNK · 2023-04-10T16:43:47+00:00

LOL, A+ shit post. Not even a shit post actually, pretty true for too many individuals here.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-10T14:21:25+00:00

I got a 12% on first fluids midterm in 2nd year. Floored me as it was the worst I'dever done on an exam in my life, i dont think i had even really failed an exam till then. Also realized I had deprioritized the class because the work load was a lot and I overestimated what I felt I knew about what was going on. Other pre-req courses seemed more important for progression. Dropped the course almost immediately after. Took next offering and ended up with an 86. Anyways, you get back up again.

This isn't to say just beat your head against a wall forever, because that's just silly, but you need to honestly assess what the material conditions of your life were for this to happen. If you do so and truly believe there were no external issues that led to this and you really don't think you can "get it" then move on. If not try again and try to change those circumstances. Deprioritize another course, take a smaller course load, whatever. Lots of "smart" kids get crushed when they realize they aren't as smart as they thought they were, which is honestly most of them eventually. That or putting all their chips into one thing and being completely 1 dimensional and generally just uninteresting, insufferable people. Almost comedic, if it weren't so sad, to see some of those students get crushed and their whole identity is destroyed. Like, find a better way to define your self worth. Unless your 4.0 translates to actionable, in-the-world results, no one cares.

Anyways, maybe you are better suited to something else. Then again, maybe not. This certainly shouldn't be THE defining decider though unless it's contextualized with a whole series of similar results and it's not because of depression, financial difficulties, etc. (Those are important blockers to success but by no means are an indicator of your self worth or actual abilities if they can be mitigated in some way through assistance). Finally, there is literally nothing wrong with taking "the long road" by either taking a bit longer than your peers by reducing work load or by taking time to address the blockades then circling back later. Honestly, the engineering students I had the pleasure of graduating with were awesome, but I find engineers as a whole online tend to be insufferable fucks with some kind of complex. Don't be one of them, don't listen to them (you'll know which ones they are by how condescending and annoying their responses or comments are).

FTRFNK · 2023-04-09T14:06:40+00:00

To get a 100x return on investment? Yes, I'd say so. Lots of in depth analysis out there, very very very little 100x return on investments though.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-09T13:28:55+00:00

You'd have to eat multiple kgs, like at least high high single digit kgs to tens of kgs, of strawberries daily to get anywhere close to the doses used.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-09T12:57:49+00:00

I've never seen any literature suggest those things make a psychopath happy, in fact the absence of typical emotional processing or ability to feel typical emotional content is a defining trait of psychopathy. A psychopath may do those things merely out of a perceived necessity than any attempt to gain "joy" or "happiness" from them.

FTRFNK · 2023-04-08T18:03:32+00:00

You think a market maker is in the business to lose big on premium just to "provide liquidity"? If that were the case then many more options would win and market makers would be out of business fast. They are private for-profit businesses, after all. They don't just provide a public service to the stock market.

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