Transferring careers is near impossible #forever an engineer
Why should you give an electrical engineer a chance? If someone whose passion is painting can learn how to code complicated control loops with machine language to control space robots, then learn how to incentivize interns to do the work for while they get the credit, to learn how to slowly demonstrate the hypocrisy of this artificial hierarchy that pits us against one another and overworks us in a bath of cognitive dissonance between empty inspirational words about a field once filled with creativity but has now hardened into a bureaucratic life support system for the CEOs loved ones until the company collapses from within – then I can transfer some of this knowledge to the field of marketing. I know how to read large scale social patterns and trends. I can see the root of sentiment, the conditions people set for themselves to feel certain emotions while suppressing others, and trace to patient xero for the aphorisms they repeat. I have diverged from my friend groups early on and began exploring a variety of settings – adrenaline addiction, addiction, academics, philosophy, psychology, cross cultural immersion, social experimentation. I have slowly made myself into the universal donor for mixing with just about any group. I am an expert at using the psychological knowledge I gained across these many mediums to create new group dynamics. It’s almost visual to me, like I’m painting but with people’s inherent emotions and skills. Starting social movements doesn’t require a lot of money and fame like we’re led to assume. The obvious is most often false. Movements begin with boldness, authentic boldness while also being tasteful and aware of itself and its time – that appeals to the first and most curious tier of followers, they set off a chain effect, creating an organism the many won’t realize they are a part of. In that way, many of the traits associated with toughness may have been started by an unbeknownst small child.
It’s being aware of the fine line between a hipster’s passion for some personally irrelevant cause, the preaching of an easily dismissible homeless person whose cause is too personal, and the commercially successful artists who ties these two characters together without using literals or labels to present the concept.
What’s the difference between these fire starters? The origin of their thoughts, their intention, how clever they are approaching a wall from a scale of building a trampoline to jump over to head butting it repeatedly.
With cleverness and good social understanding I can and have changed the course of thought within my groups and institutions. This may sound like hyperbole, but my methods are tested and based in reality – more than the likelihood we’ll find escape from resource bottlenecks in space, curing terminal diseases so that we can eliminate the highly neglected and disciplined field of preventive health, invoking mindfulness in a adults to the point they don’t feel ridiculous approaching a new human and sharing their unfiltered thoughts with them sober. The dream of not having to exercise or regularly feel pain to sustain perpetual comfort. These are fantasies, not at all useless, not impossible, not at all fruitless, but impractical bought and sold fantasies that are currently propelling society. These fantasies promise maintenance and improvement of the level of comfort we’ve achieved in congruence with woke principles. If we wanted to save gas and fossil fuels, we could all ride motorcycles instead of cars (80 mpg), but that would mean readapting to less comfortable (for most) living conditions. Seemingly obvious hypocrisies like these are everywhere, but they’ve yet to polarize any group and exist as a unanimous but unspoken truth. In that way it’s not being used. There is something distasteful about saying we want to encourage growth but keep our standard of lethargy. Instead we push it aside and focus on the accidental tech that comes from resolving problems when preventative solutions were not thought to be established early on.
I personally fell into tech’s promise for an equal if not more comfortable and better future. Language specialized AI could eliminate the need to go through a data-sheet, carefully type and debug code to perfection. To eliminate the guilt of leaving carbon footprint, plastic oceans, my existence/sin. Do not spend 3 months iterating a simple PCB that redirects power to various sensors. The frontier of mankind, finding life on our water moons, some proof of intention beyond the borders of our solar system.
It’s a fantasy that deserves “cringe” as much as the concept that good fashion alone could equate to power but no amplified voice has yet to demonstrate this flaw with anything more than “how about we allocate those resources to making things on earth better instead of trying to move to space”.
Ideas exist apart from a single human’s identity, they form in response to what technology allows and simultaneously across the minds of many. The jobs of engineers are to collectively carry them out, in this way quantity matters more than quality period. I see the ideas tech has its eyes set on, the course we’re heading on, and I can see it’s irrelevant who is working on them.
What is uniquely owned and whose cause can be altered by an individual is art.
Anthropological Magical Realism 