I considered doing that for a living on a regular basis at 3am while doing 4 people’s worth of engineering homework for 12+ continuous hours. The pros are the hourly pay is great, the actual billable labor is easy if you’re good at verbal domination (I have a knack for it to a degree that makes it hilarious I’m exclusively a sub). The cons are that there’s a ton of instability, the work is dangerous, most of the hours aren’t billable, and it doesn’t age with you as a career.
Like tbh if the work fell into my lap I’d do it, but I’m never spending time advertising sex work.
The problem wasn’t that I was too good for the classes, these were junior and senior level engineering courses, I’d be concerned if someone could test out of shit like that. The problem was on the other end. Group projects are huge parts of the grade, the group consists of 2-4 people who are graded together on a project that regardless of how you cut it up and make people turn in steps still has deadlines that assume weeks of work for multiple people, and some people are fucking idiots or lazy or whatever else. And group projects are important to engineering. Unless you wind up in some backwater factory you’re going to be doing group projects for the majority of your career.
Sounds like every one of my group projects, and I majored in Comp Sci and Music Ed, minor in Psych and Physics. Thankfully I didn’t have to do a single group project in Nuclear Power School.
Some of those psych majors couldn’t design an ethical experiment even with multiple textbooks explaining what ethics are.
Yeah I really wanted to do sexology research but wound up siding with engineering for a variety of reasons including money, time, employment odds, and the fact that engineering students were somehow more bearable than psych students.
I actually wound up doing human psychological experimentation as my engineering capstone (turns out a lot of engineering problems exist when people and machines attempt to communicate with each other) and it scares me to think about how bad psych students could’ve fucked up what we did. My idiots were able to be effectively corralled and kept away from the experimental design, IRB applications, and data analysis.
Oh we weren’t allowed to actually do the experiments we designed. That may have changed in the 400 levels of classes, I dunno. Didn’t get that far. These were thought experiments to train us on how to design an experiment that involves animals or people. Funny how we didn’t worry about plants or fungi now that I think about it.
There’s certainly light at the end of the tunnel, and I say that as someone who was in the same situation as you multiple times in college. Twice I had semester or two-semester long super-projects which had groups of five or six. Both times I did the work with one other person, staying up past dawn with them to get work done. I remember watching the sun rise when on hour 40 or so of working and wanting to move into the mountains and become a hermit, before grabbing another can of red bull and getting back into my chair to work another few hours before getting sleep.
I considered doing that for a living on a regular basis at 3am while doing 4 people’s worth of engineering homework for 12+ continuous hours. The pros are the hourly pay is great, the actual billable labor is easy if you’re good at verbal domination (I have a knack for it to a degree that makes it hilarious I’m exclusively a sub). The cons are that there’s a ton of instability, the work is dangerous, most of the hours aren’t billable, and it doesn’t age with you as a career.
Like tbh if the work fell into my lap I’d do it, but I’m never spending time advertising sex work.
how did you end up doing 4 people’s engineering homework o_o
Group projects and competence. Once I found another lady who always had the same problem the issue got a lot better, but she wasn’t in all my classes
F. hope letting people “test out” of classes becomes more of a thing so this pattern doesn’t happen as much
The problem wasn’t that I was too good for the classes, these were junior and senior level engineering courses, I’d be concerned if someone could test out of shit like that. The problem was on the other end. Group projects are huge parts of the grade, the group consists of 2-4 people who are graded together on a project that regardless of how you cut it up and make people turn in steps still has deadlines that assume weeks of work for multiple people, and some people are fucking idiots or lazy or whatever else. And group projects are important to engineering. Unless you wind up in some backwater factory you’re going to be doing group projects for the majority of your career.
Sounds like every one of my group projects, and I majored in Comp Sci and Music Ed, minor in Psych and Physics. Thankfully I didn’t have to do a single group project in Nuclear Power School.
Some of those psych majors couldn’t design an ethical experiment even with multiple textbooks explaining what ethics are.
Yeah I really wanted to do sexology research but wound up siding with engineering for a variety of reasons including money, time, employment odds, and the fact that engineering students were somehow more bearable than psych students.
I actually wound up doing human psychological experimentation as my engineering capstone (turns out a lot of engineering problems exist when people and machines attempt to communicate with each other) and it scares me to think about how bad psych students could’ve fucked up what we did. My idiots were able to be effectively corralled and kept away from the experimental design, IRB applications, and data analysis.
Oh we weren’t allowed to actually do the experiments we designed. That may have changed in the 400 levels of classes, I dunno. Didn’t get that far. These were thought experiments to train us on how to design an experiment that involves animals or people. Funny how we didn’t worry about plants or fungi now that I think about it.
Sounds like group work ;_;
There’s certainly light at the end of the tunnel, and I say that as someone who was in the same situation as you multiple times in college. Twice I had semester or two-semester long super-projects which had groups of five or six. Both times I did the work with one other person, staying up past dawn with them to get work done. I remember watching the sun rise when on hour 40 or so of working and wanting to move into the mountains and become a hermit, before grabbing another can of red bull and getting back into my chair to work another few hours before getting sleep.
Oh yeah this was all years ago, now that I’m employed if I have to stay very late my boss is paying out the ass for that time.