As a mechanical engineer it was horrifically saddening when I got a chance to talk with the smartest, highest achieving engineer in our cohort, ask him where he wanted to go when he graduated and he shrugged and said “I dunno, Raytheon or Boeing? Whatever pays the most haha.”
I like to think I have a strong sense of moral justice, but let’s be real, if licking boot had a significant chance of paying off my debts, I’d do it and not lose much sleep about it.
The catch is, if you have this skill set, there are lots of jobs that allow you to live really comfortably without having to design murder robots. Some of those jobs even help humanity. So most of the people working these jobs either sold their morals to make $150k instead of $120k or they never had any to begin with and just went for the biggest number.
I’ve been telling Anduril recruiters to fuck off for 2 years and it’s very frustrating to hear my (well compensated!) peers make excuses as to why its actually totally fine to take a job designing Mr.Lucky’s latest death machine.
I could definitely understand if taking the job quadrupled your income and allowed you to take care of your family or something but most of the people who qualify are not in that position.
Exactly. Everyone has a price, and the more desperate a person is the lower it gets. The fact that I know exactly what mine is doesn’t make me a bad person.
It’s a moot point though, nobody’s offering that number for my skillset.
As a mechanical engineer it was horrifically saddening when I got a chance to talk with the smartest, highest achieving engineer in our cohort, ask him where he wanted to go when he graduated and he shrugged and said “I dunno, Raytheon or Boeing? Whatever pays the most haha.”
I talked to an engineering student who wanted to work on fighter jets so actively pursuing jobs for the MIC
You can fight all that and still end up working for [redacted] most of our biggest clients are [redacted]…
Yep, I know several people like this. They try not to think about what their end product is for and just focus on the engineering problems.
If this is you:
You are a bad person, you are evil. I sincerely hope there is a hell and you go there once you die. Murderer!
Well those wedding parties aren’t going to drone bomb themselves!
I like to think I have a strong sense of moral justice, but let’s be real, if licking boot had a significant chance of paying off my debts, I’d do it and not lose much sleep about it.
The catch is, if you have this skill set, there are lots of jobs that allow you to live really comfortably without having to design murder robots. Some of those jobs even help humanity. So most of the people working these jobs either sold their morals to make $150k instead of $120k or they never had any to begin with and just went for the biggest number.
… yeah, that makes sense.
I’ve been telling Anduril recruiters to fuck off for 2 years and it’s very frustrating to hear my (well compensated!) peers make excuses as to why its actually totally fine to take a job designing Mr.Lucky’s latest death machine.
I could definitely understand if taking the job quadrupled your income and allowed you to take care of your family or something but most of the people who qualify are not in that position.
One cannot eat internet upvotes.
Exactly. Everyone has a price, and the more desperate a person is the lower it gets. The fact that I know exactly what mine is doesn’t make me a bad person.
It’s a moot point though, nobody’s offering that number for my skillset.