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Personally one of the best pieces of advice I ever got on being an engineer came from none other than Scotty from Star Trek. It came when he was making a walk-on appearance on ST-TNG and was talking to Jordie Laforge about being the chief engineer... he said something along the lines of "Listen laddie, if you want the captain to think you're a wonder you need to double all your time estimates for everything you do... then when the captain is in a pinch you can get the job done in half the time... instant miracle worker! [img]smile.gif[/img]
It's always better to fight for a longer schedule than to try to hit an overly agressive deadline and miss. At the very least if you can't hit the schedule you can point out that you TOLD them that they're schedule was unrealistic in the BEGINNING! [img]smile.gif[/img]
I have to say engineering is just about the funnest job a person can have... the pay's not bad either.
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