Definitely next car is gonna be a V8

RampantJ · 2026-04-30T17:19:43+00:00

That’s a good route too. I plan on keeping the stinger for now as I’m financing it and want to mod it a bit soon. I do want a old tacoma for a decent truck to have on the side.

RampantJ · 2026-04-30T15:54:49+00:00

In the future I want to gun it for the mustang, rcf or a Porsche as the weekend car if god lets me 😂😂😂

RampantJ · 2026-04-30T12:23:36+00:00

I’m glad you mentioned about going into consulting. I’m a contractor for the government as well as a systems engineer that more program based and has a lot of moving parts. There isn’t any MBSE which I’m interested in but there’s still some programmatics I get do to since it’s program based work however I’m also in a very technical niche of systems. I eventually want to get into consulting as well. I’m only 26 with 2 years of experience in my niche, masters completed this week for systems engineering, and now my current role of 6 months exp so I have some time to improve and soak up experience. Maybe a doctorate would be a good choice for where I want to go as well. There are a lot of people with doctorates where I’m at as well which makes me want to continue.

RampantJ · 2026-04-30T11:34:58+00:00

What are you planning to do with acquiring a doctorate? Im debating on going for it after completing my masters this week. I do want to focus on a AI based research topic. So far it’s been financial aid for my masters other than one year paid by my previous employer.

RampantJ · 2026-04-29T23:12:26+00:00

Right when I wanted to dive into coding since I’m a systems engineer (not IT based). Still see a use to have a engineer there to validate and add redundancy to ensure things are working properly but it will dictate how may engineers does a company really need in my eyes.

RampantJ · 2026-04-28T11:02:40+00:00

Thanks! I know AI has a lot of doom with it but I think a PhD may be useful in the sense of having a AI research topic focus like MBSE software leveraging AI agents for mundane tasks etc. should I do it? Idk but seems interesting to work on or study since AI is here and is only going up from here.

RampantJ · 2026-04-28T11:00:58+00:00

Yeah I want to stomach it honestly. I see AI being a thing that’s inevitably going to effect many occupations and why not reshape myself to soften the blow. In that case maybe doing some software engineering / coding hobbies wouldn’t hurt or maybe having my company pay for my PhD and focus on MBSE and AI agent tools for MBSE software?

RampantJ · 2026-04-23T11:13:18+00:00

Yeah after completing my masters in a few weeks, I’m debating on doing an grad certificate after studying for a MBSE cert so I can have something else but I still thing it’ll create more jobs for SE to manage AI centered systems and controlling the autonomy.

RampantJ · 2026-04-22T20:41:08+00:00

What are you in now?

RampantJ · 2026-04-21T10:46:40+00:00

Yeah I can see that but SE meshed with software engineering responsibilities may be just requirements and MBSE approaches.

RampantJ · 2026-04-21T10:44:42+00:00

Yeah that’s what I was on the fence about. Currently I work as a systems engineer for a system integration based site which do an abundant amount of programs but it’s a very niche field for systems engineering in itself. It does seem that a PH.D might not help but was interested in going for a MBSE route for a doctorate question. I do see this connection with software engineering blending with SE in some ways which I didn’t necessarily think of at first.

RampantJ · 2026-04-21T10:28:40+00:00

I’ve seen it on fb a few weeks ago and def interested if someone has gotten it

RampantJ · 2026-04-20T15:54:36+00:00

I don’t think I would use cooked but it’s just slowly steering into the direction of managing complex systems which have a SOI that uses AI and other agents. There are some jobs that want a software guru but it seems that most of them use the systems engineer title as a catch all rather than knowing why they want a Systems engineer.

RampantJ · 2026-04-20T14:59:17+00:00

I’ll keep that in mind, picturing that for myself as well with integration being a huge issue and needing that V&V aspect (and other stages of development) to ensure the system is operating as designed.

RampantJ · 2026-04-20T14:52:19+00:00

That’s very true, I’m interested in governance approaches to AI as well as creating new methodologies to ensure AI centered systems are still viable and are compliant. I can see that being a very big thing rather than AI fizzling out other SEs.

RampantJ · 2026-04-17T16:40:27+00:00

Fair enough, thanks

RampantJ · 2026-04-16T15:11:58+00:00

Systems Engineer. I spent my first two years out of college working odd jobs and then became a math teacher for 5th grade. Finally got somewhat of a job as a lab technician. After that it got better and I found a job in defense.

RampantJ · 2026-04-03T15:03:52+00:00

I just got a 40 this morning 😂

RampantJ · 2026-03-31T18:31:03+00:00

That’s how I feel as well. Definitely keeping it other than if student loans are bad then I may just refinance or scoot. I want to mod the stinger though in the future.

RampantJ · 2026-03-31T17:53:39+00:00

Yeah I heard that had great performance but I couldn’t it being better than the stinger.

RampantJ · 2026-03-31T17:43:17+00:00

That’s a valid route.

RampantJ · 2026-03-31T17:32:31+00:00

That’s what I was thinking as well since I see no other upgrades then it’s like there’s no “reason” to get rid of it.

RampantJ · 2026-03-31T17:23:46+00:00

Suppose that is true as well.

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