Quote from: Misato33 on September 26, 2012, 04:21:46 PM
Software Engineer here.  Masters in computer science as of June, 8 years professional experience.

I'd love to study CS some day. Especially since more than half of my hobbies involve a computer of some sort
Alas, I only know crude C/C++ and some scripts. Anything networky for me = 

Unemployed software engineer here. Also extremely qualified in southern engineering/the proper use of bailing wire and duct tape to fix most problems 

I'd like to believe I am a rather decent social engineer. *innocent face*

My dad was a rocket scientist for Boeing and worked on many Cold War era secret projects, of course he was also an electrical engineer and worked on numerous "black box" applications for the B-2 bomber towards the end of his career.

Now myself, since we always had an airplane when I was growing up I figured it would be exciting to get into aircraft maintenance, so off I went to get my A&P license and ended up putting in 30 years in the biz working on general aviation light planes and corporate jets of all kinds, the last ten years of that I had my own business doing paint and sheet metal repairs on aircraft in the Seattle area.   

Quote from: Brooke777 on September 26, 2012, 04:40:26 PM
Wasnt that invented when you were a kid?

Writing.  I had a thing for clay tablets.

Quote from: Jamie D on September 27, 2012, 01:37:57 AM
Writing.  I had a thing for clay tablets.

If you're looking to get into or back into Software Engineering make sure your JavaScript and HTML5 APIs are up to date.  Even at my old manufacturing focused job the JavaScript was pretty intense.

But please please spend time with a book like Introduction to Algorithms too because there is so much more to software than a language.  I keep thinking how Graphic Designers are under appreciated.  "I know a guy who has Photoshop.  He'll make our logo!" Well, there is a growing risk of, "this guy learned JavaScript syntax in his spare time.  He can make our web app!" Sure he can too, but there will be no fixing said app nor extending of it.

I mean no offense to those who picked up the tools of software engineering on their own. I can pick up a paint brush too, but I know nothing about the art of using said brush.  That's the analogy I'm trying to convey.

I'd rather be in c/c++ or objective-c myself as I have issues with how loose JavaScript is.  But, it's currently hard for me to see a software engineering job in the near future that doesn't require JavaScript knowledge at least in part.

Hello, Oompa Loompas of science!     

I'm not an engineer (unless you count being certified as a systems engineer), but I work for a bunch of them doing computer aided drafting.