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Old 02-15-2005, 22:06   #7
frostfire
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Originally Posted by lksteve
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IMHO, multitasking is the fate of engineers

I've done some of those in civilian setting. When you are recognized as engineers whether from education, training, experience, or reputation, suddenly you're expected to be jack-of-all-trades. You are expected to fix what's broken, recover what's lost and so on, even if it's not related to your specific knowledge/discipline

In a similar fashion, when something is broken, missing, out of order, etc., suddenly you are at fault even if the problems have absolutely nothing to do with you....the management folks are good at this but that's another story
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