WHat I do for a living.

[FoodMonsterGuy]

Don't worry I am arriving there over an hour early.

[JOHNtheREDNECK]

I'll have to have a few conversations with Buzz at some point because I am in college as a mechanical engineering technology major doing industrial and ground transport based skill applications and a little design work as well as part failure analysis. The math involved is not for the faint of heart. As of the time of this post I am about halfway through the program just trying to survive the theoretical math so I can get on to the more interesting physics and engineering courses. I work random part time jobs that are nothing to brag about so I won't mention those. They help pay it off but engineering majors don't get to work as much because the school is much more intensive than a lot of the other majors that colleges offer but some of them are even more intense. Some people can go through college only taking 2 or 3 classes at a time, only on campus half a day and they get a degree. Engineering majors will spend on some days nearly 10 hours or more on campus and then you still have a lot of practice work to be done outside the classroom.

...Then I have to get licensed [or at least would like to] once I get out which is the FE/PE exam. Actual design engineers here know what I'm talking about and know the burden one must go through to pass them. Those of you on the railroads this has nothing to do with you lol.

[RailWanderer]

I just noticed this thread. I am retired now, but for years I was in the automotive parts industry. Started in 1968 selling VW parts, eventually made advances to the local AC/Delco distributor, then to selling GM parts in 1984. I spent the rest of my working days 'til 2013 selling GM parts, and spent the last 17 years, which at first I thought were great, but then the new management came and kick all the old folks out. So, it was forced retirement. I do have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Graphics Design, but never really spent any time in that field of work. I guess the train sim community allows me to use those skills to make things we all can use within our hobby.