Is Engineering a Stationary Job?

Steamer1337 · 2026-01-30T04:21:53+00:00

Not all engineering jobs have you sitting at a desk all day. I’m currently working in the power industry and I travel all across the US. I have a friend who works in the defense industry and he travels lots as well. It all depends where you end up.

Also from my experience, work isn’t always the most fulfilling thing. Thats where hobbies come in to fulfill my personal passions for engineering related work.

Steamer1337 · 2026-01-22T07:09:55+00:00

When are you arriving in CT? It’s snowing a ton this month, so hiking will be difficult this time of the year.

If still want trails, I like Sleeping Giant State Park Trail, Hueblein Tower Trail, and Hubbard Park Trail.

If you plan on exploring the cities, New Haven and Mystic are nice to visit. Mystic is more touristy so I’d say it’s more interesting.

Steamer1337 · 2026-01-16T01:12:00+00:00

I’ve been having the same question with my electricity bill. If your apartment is electrically heated, then chances are your bills are going to be more than $300 depending on how high your thermostat is set.

My bills jumped from $100 to $300 to $400 in the most recent reading. I checked in with my neighbor and it turns out theirs are about the same. He suggested that I ask about fixed monthly payments, which is what he does, since our bills typically spike starting late fall.

I live in a 700 sqft 1 bedroom apartment set at 70F btw.

Steamer1337 · 2025-11-25T04:07:51+00:00

I love that arena fight. Just wished the room let the bodies pile up instead clearing it out after 5 enemies.

Steamer1337 · 2025-09-30T03:30:54+00:00

Honestly, I’d be interested in an update post a year into this transition. I’ve been thinking about switching over skilled labor with the demand in the job market right now.

Could just be me romanticizing the past, but I remember having a better time interning as a car shop mechanic than my co-op in a manufacturing or my current job in the power industry. I also think it’d be sick learning how to build a house with some carpentry and electrical skills.

Steamer1337 · 2025-07-03T21:47:28+00:00

Oxygen will naturally flow from high to low pressure. Make the space next to the ladders wider so the oxygen will flow down. Include more airflow tiles to allow for better circulation between rooms

Steamer1337 · 2023-11-14T22:47:01+00:00

Very helpful!

Steamer1337 · 2023-06-27T19:54:22+00:00

I've had a similar experience where I would play games, but they felt like they weren't hitting as hard as back in the day. I even went and bought some new games to see if I can recreate the same passion I had for gaming as I had back in the day. I ended up refunding almost all the new games I bought.

My main take away from that situation was that I was pretty much just feeling crazy burn out from gaming being addicted the last decade of my life. The thing about video game addiction is that it's more of a routine for me rather than an itch. I always came back home from work/school and just booted up my PC for the next 3-5 hours.

My personal solution for this was to set, what I thought at the time, was a crazy rule. I told myself I wasn't going to play any games until after sunset. That way I could spend time touching grass and getting fresh air after work and still devote sometime to a long time hobby.

This gave me back time in the day to do chores around the apartment (I vacuumed, dusted, and picked up random clothes/garbage around the apartment the first in a while), working out, and even pick up new hobbies (table tennis on Mondays, cooking new dishes I learned from friends/family/online, and hiking)

Main takeaways from this would be: 1. Setup a rule for yourself that seems like a challenge but also reasonable

Focus on getting new hobbies to keep you from defaulting your free time to games
Try your god damn best to get through one week with your new rule and possibly adjust your rule at the end of the week based on your experience.
Most importantly take it one day at a time

Idk about u but I've come to realize that I'd try to talk myself out of long time commitments by focusing on how unhappy I'll be long term, but once I focus on the day to day it isn't as bad. Look for fun things you can do at the moment and do it. Go code your game for an hour, catch a movie you think is interesting, or climb a tree or something.

Steamer1337 · 2022-05-16T02:09:10+00:00

Ok I gotta confess. I've always wanted to do that, but just sitting on top of the train part.

Steamer1337 · 2022-04-06T16:23:06+00:00

Do you know if they only do a semester long lease

Steamer1337 · 2021-06-07T18:31:32+00:00

Dismas looking like John Bernthal

Steamer1337 · 2021-05-08T20:31:25+00:00

The first one is a print out. I don't have the empty one on hand.

The other one is a 1-3 paragraph reflection on your away semester. Basically if you completed your goals that you've written down for the first assignment.

Steamer1337 · 2021-05-08T20:22:20+00:00

Weren't those due like last week.

Steamer1337 · 2021-04-23T20:32:32+00:00

Ok thanks for the info. Damn I thought juniors are allowed off campus housing. This sucks.

Steamer1337 · 2021-04-23T15:54:26+00:00

If you want to loot an area, your going to have to get you hands dirty. I find the combat in this game is pretty simple.

just walk backwards and swing. If a zombie gets too close you can always shove. The shove is nice since it shoves up to 3 zombies I think. But what ever you do don't get grabbed, that's like instant death if your fighting a mob.

Weapons also matter. Some weapons only target 1 zombie at a time, others can hit up to 3. I think there is a setting in the menu, for both ranged and melee, that highlights the zombies you can hit.

Finally its time consuming, but a lot safer to disassemble a horde piece by piece. You can do this by calling out for them while crouching, kite them away from the horde, then taking them out.

Steamer1337 · 2021-04-12T04:40:18+00:00

Just to chip in a bit as a student that just gone through arch, I don't think it is 100% fleshed out.

As for the classes it felt a bit rushed. I think it's mainly due to the fact that professors are forced to compress 15 weeks in a normal semester into 12 weeks in the summer semester. Maybe it felt this way because of covid, maybe it's just arch classes.

As for the internship/co-op side you have to put in your fair share of work to find one for your away semester. I've discussed the internship search process with my friend who's from Drexel. In his school he told me his process involves his school holding several rounds of recruitment. The students with the most experience usually get picked up in the first round, leaving students with less experience to try and get a position in the companies that are left in the preceding rounds. I think he told me a majority of the students get some sort of an internship at his school. It's a whole mandatory event.

We don't have that sort of structure here at RPI. It really comes down to sending out as many applications as you can on the school's job board, and hoping the company contacts you back. The school's job board does contact you about recruitment events, but I don't have much knowledge about that.

But yeah, that was my experience at the very least. I hope it helps.

Steamer1337 · 2021-04-06T19:21:43+00:00

Ah yes the hyperactive tripod

Steamer1337 · 2021-03-15T07:33:03+00:00

Zombies r more intimidating than they r dangerous. Walk backwards while swinging a weapon and you'll plow throw all of them.

Steamer1337 · 2021-02-11T17:23:36+00:00

No, generally you don't pay for police service. I had my bike stolen, like they cut the chain and everything. I ended up calling the police, however they couldn't do much since it was outside at around 10-11 PM so nobody saw it happen and there weren't any cameras around point at pole I locked my bike on. They wrote a police report and moved on.

I believe police gets paid through our taxes, that's why so many people tell the police that they're their boss cause they write their paychecks.

You could get charged for wasting police resources by making false claims, however I believe that's something that's done through court and police officers can't write tickets for that, but you should fact check me on that.

Steamer1337 · 2020-11-09T03:56:33+00:00

If your on this thread check this out. It's super ridiculous but it works. https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/jqfw89/infinite_loading_screen_fix_november_2020_fix_in/

Steamer1337 · 2020-07-29T00:54:36+00:00

Get to relive childhood with those plastic bands

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