I would have thought by now, from all the songs I have heard on the radio, that I would know what love is. I could at least sing along in the car, even if I didn’t truly know what it was. I could follow the story of two lovers getting together in Read more…
When I thought of my life as following simple rules like “get a job” and “retire in forty years,” I began to ask the simple questions: Why should I work eight hours a day, forty hours a week, doing the same thing for the rest of my life? Philosophical Engineering Read more…
Inside, the mohawk, tattooed, and pierced engineer wanted a different song and dance in life. But when he looked in the mirror, he never felt that he was good enough to do it. That his life was only the prescribed future called retirement. The present moment used to be solely Read more…
The beaten path of study hard to get a degree, find a secure and stable position at a company to get a job, and try to fall in love quickly out of college to get married, didn’t get me the satisfaction or fulfillment I was looking for in my journey of forty Read more…
Life is like a mountain, and most people are made to believe that the pinnacle of success is a forty year campaign on a beaten trail to retirement. But I know, that I don’t want to really see what is on the other side of that mountain when I’m sixty-five years old… Or wonder Read more…
It was my first impression that getting a degree, job, and married were part of me being able to fit in with the rest of society. But as I began to look around, it was more of the shiny things that appealed to me, like the nice car and the big house. Read more…
Every journey begins with the first… word. It’s been over six years since I first wrote the opening words down for my book. I never would have guessed writing a book would take this long, but then again, I never would have guessed as to why I had to wait until Read more…
“Be orderly in your normal life so you can be violent and original in your work.” ~Gustave Flaubert Philosophical Engineering Despite the social constructs that have designed an impression of a good life by getting a degree, getting a job, and getting married, the sense of order can bring about a Read more…
Are there any set of universal standards for a good life? Can we all agree that a degree, job, and marriage might be part of them? As some of you may know, I dropped out of my Masters program two and half years in, never earning that degree. I recently Read more…
Save for retirement and in forty years you will be released from your sentence back into the free world. Philosophical Engineering: None of us like to be on the receiving end of a bad prank. But yet we are unaware that when we take our money and allow other people Read more…