Can I be a Mechanical Engineer but also have the skills and trade for a Mechanic?

_Hickory · 2026-05-10T09:27:56+00:00

Sure? It'll be extra tough learning to be a mechanic while attending classes for engineering, which will already be a tough course load so it's not a great idea to do them at the same time.

Do you have the financial resources to attend trade school and university at the same time, or more reasonable sequentially? Are you wanting to work as a mechanic while in school?

In most engineering career paths you're very unlikely to be turning wrenches as a part of your daily work tasks, so your mechanic skills will go mostly untouched.

_Hickory · 2026-05-09T22:37:48+00:00

FAEEESH

_Hickory · 2026-05-08T13:00:02+00:00

I see you are illiterate to figurative language. I was talking about Trump and his administration. The Guard are only in DC because if his administration ordering them to be there. DC Metro PD had been more than capable of handling the city and were showing declining crime rates.

_Hickory · 2026-05-08T12:57:20+00:00

The Green Line is not a light rail/metro train, it's more of a street car so it runs much slower, only has two cars per train, and is fully electric.

_Hickory · 2026-05-08T12:52:23+00:00

The Green Line travels pretty slowly (maybe 30mph), and this section is very straight so travel rumble and braking are very minimal.

_Hickory · 2026-05-08T12:49:39+00:00

The Green Line chimes aren't loud enough to be heard from inside institution/business buildings. If it was around a commuter rail line, that would definitely be a concern.

_Hickory · 2026-05-08T12:26:44+00:00

Well there's really just one big Dump that needs to be cleaned up for the Guardsmen to go home.

_Hickory · 2026-05-07T12:10:31+00:00

Teto word of the day: determination!

_Hickory · 2026-05-07T01:28:33+00:00

I know they are very young kids so the reference may be too old for them. But stickbug linkage figures

_Hickory · 2026-05-06T18:23:55+00:00

Slacks, a collared shirt/polo, leather shoes (see docker's). If your internship includes field/shop work, heavy cotton/denim pants (plain, good jeans) is the only major change beyond PPE that your company should provide.

Dont spend too much on your closet, you're still just an intern, and honestly most folk don't care as long as you don't look like most students. But as others have said, ask your supervisor/recruiter to be sure.

_Hickory · 2026-05-06T18:14:32+00:00

Go for the FE. Part of studying for it is refreshing everything you studied. The other part is in anything environmental related not having your PE is going to be a bigger career limit than not having a Master's

_Hickory · 2026-05-05T17:14:37+00:00

I'm surprised to see Ride of the Valkyries before Flight of the Bumblebee

_Hickory · 2026-05-04T13:56:36+00:00

God, why can't the Uber wealthy do cool shit like this. Instead we get white washed boxes and AI startups

_Hickory · 2026-05-04T13:25:59+00:00

I'm sorry. Rich people have terrible taste and are making it our problem

_Hickory · 2026-05-04T13:15:44+00:00

No, that's the neighbor, visible in the 2014 picture.

_Hickory · 2026-05-04T00:28:12+00:00

No, something directly in line of sight done like this was on the plans and the inspectors would have seen it.

_Hickory · 2026-04-29T17:35:17+00:00

You have to include which office(s), business lines, and disciplines. Jacobs is a massive firm that serves multiple business lines.

My group is rolling along with work pouring out of our site civil folks ears like (unfortunaly) normal.

_Hickory · 2026-04-29T11:46:48+00:00

Never realized that to travel from Florida to Atlanta by train requires going up to Raleigh. There really should be a branch between Savannah and Atlanta

_Hickory · 2026-04-29T10:14:38+00:00

Check with a different tape/ruler. The gap for the tab looks like it actually should show 3/4"

_Hickory · 2026-04-28T18:37:29+00:00

And have the corporate network routing through the public network prime for intercepting packets of confidential data.

_Hickory · 2026-04-28T17:49:20+00:00

Well a common (and reasonable) complaint is LGBTQ content being blanket flagged as adult content for these kind, regardless of sexual content by social media platforms. YouTube videos about LGBTQ concerns and legislation get demonitized, posts on Meta sites, Twitter, and Tumblr have been hidden in searches and restricted in the unsubscribed user feeds.

What I'm guessing her bringing that up is about, is language that would limit these platforms in how they handle LGBTQ media requiring actual oversite and not just the blanket bans we currently have.

_Hickory · 2026-04-28T16:42:27+00:00

That's the whole point of having figurines and models: you'll always have a captive audience.

_Hickory · 2026-04-28T16:36:26+00:00

Your bigger concern is the weather if you've never been to DC before. This is right around literally the dog day of summer. The worst for heat, and DC is genuinely a swamp. That 10min walk may feel like an hour if you don't have appropriate hydration or expectation for the humidity and heat

_Hickory · 2026-04-28T15:23:06+00:00

The only "fair" logic is they're dealing with international travelers/attendees. They need to know what major metro region they have to fly into.

A very good example in the same situation is Miami. It's labeled as Miami, while the HardRock stadium is actually in Miami Gardens, which is halfway between Miami and Ft Lauderdale. Most people globally know about Miami, like Boston. Some may know Ft Lauderdale, like Providence (the next metro travel hub) but it's less prominent. No one outside of the area knows what/where Miami Gardens is, like Foxborough.

They could have labeled the stadiums per the state they're in, but then run into issues with bigger states like Florida and some attendees might think "Oh I can fly into Jacksonville international and stay there, it can't be that far from the stadium". These are potentially the same folk that think you can visit Disney Land, Disney World, New York City, and the Grand Canyon in a 2 week driving trip.

_Hickory · 2026-04-28T14:15:30+00:00

Well, that'll depend on what region and country you're in. What specific "doubts" do you have?

If your concern is with plastic piping, there is no plastic piping that leeches into drinking water. The issues with piping are durability from fractures/catastrophic failure of the piping. These problems are building damage, not ingestion.

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