Entry-Level Engineer's Hardest Day

Video Transcript

"My name is Alex and I'm an entry level engineer for Weber Eliot Engineers in Eugene, Oregon and I'm going to talk about some of my hardest times as an entry level engineer. For me personally my hardest day as an entry level engineer was just the amount of routine calculations I had to do. Before you get good with spreadsheets and using databases you set a lot of stuff up by hand and just doing one basic calculation is a fun and easy thing to do and takes no time but as you know from grammar school that doing 10,000 of those calculations takes hours and days and weeks and months and years and that is what computers are for. Sometimes even with the computer's help you can't really get those figures, you can't really save any time and so one of my hardest days was actually having to spend a couple of weeks just pulling numbers off of a plan document to enter into the database just to get the database to give me the answers I wanted. So I guess tediousness is one of the hardest things about this job. There is definitely a lot of repetition in this work and tedium and things don't always run smoothly, software doesn't always work the way they advertise it will and printers don't always work. I think those are some of the hardest things you have to deal with and maybe even later on dealing with people."