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Dude, give your tonsils a break. Scimi must be chafing by now.

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That's not even who im talking about. he's not an i-banker

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lack of value they provide.

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WTH???

I second IT guys. Of course, engineers are enablers to these guys because they're always asking them for fashion advice,

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hah, sorry cake baby but you just got owned.

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not really...

i post when i'm bored at work...which is quite often. if the guy wants to really get obsessed he can check out my post counts outside of work hours and weekends...almost non-exisistent

The last place I worked had a lot of drone accountants who could have been replaced with decent off-the-shelf software or rendered unnecessary by streamlining the accounting process. Real expert accountants (I have no doubt Holly is one of them) are tremendously valuable, but there are a lot of accountants whose only real function is to make the controller's fiefdom look more impressive.

Bus drivers....sorry, I mean pilots.

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We are the best

Retired EOD in the UXO job field. They believe the entire industry should be reserved for them and don't think civilians can handle it. And it shows in their attitudes. Haven't seen such arrogance in a long time. And 90% of it is unjustified. Have seen an EOD person throw a live munition into the back of a truck with a live fuse because he didn't know what it was. After seeing all the civies run for cover I think he got the hint though.

*******s....most of them at least

You're a retired electric organ discharger?

explosive ordinance disposal.

Yes, I got that.

<---- Sorry...engineer. Like all the sterotypes, I have no sense of humor or style and I like to answer rhetorical questions.

My career field....... especially some of the specialties.

Surgeons are pretty bad. EPA lackeys are the most undeservedly arrogant I've dealt with.

Agree with whoever said gun store employees...they think they are the end-all of gun knowledge

And whoever said pilots and Marines, screw you, I'm both. Probably the biggest ****** in the world according to you people. Enjoy your cubicles.

What is a financial engineer?

In simple terms, financial engineers develop and price derivatives.

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Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, the methods of engineering, the tools of mathematics and the practice of programming.[1] It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational finance, in the practice of finance.[2]
Financial engineering draws on tools from applied mathematics, computer science, statistics and economic theory.[3] In broadest definition, anyone who uses technical tools in finance could be called a financial engineer, for example any computer programmer in a bank or any statistician in a government economic bureau. However, most practitioners restrict the term to someone educated in the full range of tools of modern finance and whose work is informed by financial theory.[4] It is sometimes restricted even further, to cover only those originating new financial products and strategies.[5]

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firefighters who are ex-military

Engineers.

Stay at home moms

Do financial engineers make a lot of money?

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Yes. Quants can either make their firm a lot of money or keep it from losing a lot of money, and they are compensated accordingly.

The politicians I've met/worked with have for the most part been pretty good, down to earth guys, though it pains me to admit that of a couple of them. There are some definite notable exceptions to that, however.

Golf pros

Plastic surgeons
Pilots

"Journalists" with a tech beat, especially those that shill for a company. Jon Gruber and MG Siegler come to mind

I haven't read the thread, but the correct answer is anyone who walks out into public from a hospital or doctor's office with 'scrubs' on.

You are the worst, get over yourself

Pilots and people in HR because they "fire employees".

Do people really know engineers that talk endlessly about their jobs? I'll cop to engineers being arrogant know-it-alls, and getting excited and ramblind on about engineering/technical stuff, but I honestly don't think I know any REAL engineers that constantly bring up their job, or think that other people want to hear it. We realize that our jobs are dull to most people, in my experience.

Now, an engineering tech kind of guy? That I can see, but it seems like they mostly just want to talk about it with real engineers to appease their own inferiority complex.

[This message has been edited by AliasMan02 (edited 9/29/2012 2:13a).]