• Question: What happens if you weren't able to be a engineer?

    Asked by Temmie ze cat to Helen, Hollie, Matt, Phil, Steve, Sylwia on 10 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Hollie Heard

      Hollie Heard answered on 10 Mar 2018:

      I think I would still have ended up in a job that I found interesting and challenging. It’s important to always be open to trying new things and seeing where they take you. Your career or education may take in a very different direction to where you thought you wanted to go as we continue to learn and discover. If you follow your passions, work hard and do what makes you happy you can end up in some amazing places working on projects you never thought possible. Is engineering a career that interests you, what sort of job would you like in the future?

    • Photo: Steve Williams

      Steve Williams answered on 10 Mar 2018:

      I really don’t know what else I would have done. I do love carpentry and have made furniture in my workshop – my workshop such as it is in my garage, nothing grand. I think I might have enjoyed making furniture as a job but whatever else i did I think it would always have involved making things.

    • Photo: Sylwia Nikel

      Sylwia Nikel answered on 13 Mar 2018:

      I do actually think of that sometimes and I think I would be career advisor. After becoming ATEM ambassador I learned that students would greatly benefit guidance in terms of choosing their career path. I seem to have some sort of natural skills to recognise what people are good at.
      I would like to someday, later in my life to have a restaurant with my own invented dishes… So, I guess there is a bit of a pattern here – inventing, building like an engineer.

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