Top Ten things you did not learn in Engineering School

1. It doesn’t work according to the specs.


2. Anything practical you were taught will be obsolete before you use it, except the complex math, which you will never use.


3. Overtime pay? What overtime pay?


4. Always try to fix the hardware with the software.


5. Dilbert is not a comic strip, it’s a documentary.


6. Any design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development.


7. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.


8. A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.


9. If you can’t fix it — document it.


10. Don’t discuss anything with sales or management yet.

Excerpt from "My Job Is A Joke"