Yep. I was originally a land surveyor. I started school for Civil Engineering - building bridges and dams and stuff. I quickly - with my professors' help - realized how little room for innovation there is in Civil. A bridge is a bridge, a dam is a dam. Euclid's Elements, ca. 300bc, are still the gold standard.
CompSci let me tap more into the "c'mon let's invent some stuff and be weird!!!" side of my brain.
Looking back, there was no option. I would be miserable now (15 years later) if I couldn't invent stuff and be wierd :)))
As a fellow land surveyor I found a more natural escape. I was mainly into photogrammetry and laser scanning and back in the first days of those technologies there was a huge lack of tools ...so I ended up building photogrammetry software then GIS and now for some reason I am in Telco 😛
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Yep. I was originally a land surveyor. I started school for Civil Engineering - building bridges and dams and stuff. I quickly - with my professors' help - realized how little room for innovation there is in Civil. A bridge is a bridge, a dam is a dam. Euclid's Elements, ca. 300bc, are still the gold standard.
CompSci let me tap more into the "c'mon let's invent some stuff and be weird!!!" side of my brain.
Looking back, there was no option. I would be miserable now (15 years later) if I couldn't invent stuff and be wierd :)))
As a fellow land surveyor I found a more natural escape. I was mainly into photogrammetry and laser scanning and back in the first days of those technologies there was a huge lack of tools ...so I ended up building photogrammetry software then GIS and now for some reason I am in Telco 😛