Curt Olson on Nostr: re: real job ... to be honest I probably was happiest and most comfortable working at ...

re: real job ... to be honest I probably was happiest and most comfortable working at my university job. It had a lot of flexibility, I worked on things I loved, I could share all that with the world (most of the time the world didn't care anyway.) But that situation ran it's course, funding ran out, I didn't have much choice but to look for other options. Working at a "real" airplane company was a brand new experience for me and I figured I would have a lot to learn, and hopefully a few things to contribute.
It's interesting working with mechanica/aero engineers. They are so focused on making actual things. They don't know what to do with software. It scares the *** out of them. They know how to draw things, that is all. In some ways they kinda don't know what to do with me. If they don't see drawings on my computer screen I must not be doing real work, right? But then when I can put a button on a screen and they can click it and it opens up a window ... it totally blows their minds that a person knows how to even do something like that! It is so weird working with a bunch of engineers!