• Question: what made you decided you wanted to become an engineer?

    Asked by Sinead to Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura, Ray on 8 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Tommy-Callinan, kevin, 536enea42.
    • Photo: John Ging

      John Ging answered on 8 Nov 2014:

      I grew tired of milking cows on the family farm and getting up at ridiculous times to calve cows. Engineering looked like an exciting contrast with lots of opportunities to do things I wanted to. I wanted to invent but to also make a difference. There’s so many different types of engineering and so many chances to move between them.

    • Photo: Ashley Culbert

      Ashley Culbert answered on 9 Nov 2014:

      Just like John I milked many cows and even went as far as agricultural university. That was all before I realise that agriculture just wasn’t me.
      I loved working on machines in our workshop at home. I also loved tech drawing in school and wanted to do more of that so I changed courses to Mechanical engineering.

    • Photo: Catherine Conaghan

      Catherine Conaghan answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      No farming background from me – I was always interested in how things worked, or pulling things apart of they weren’t working. I also get bored of doing the same thing over and over again and like to keep things interesting, so engineering seemed like the right choice!

    • Photo: Laura Tobin

      Laura Tobin answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      By process of elimination. The only subject I really enjoyed was physics and my career guidance councillor suggested that I might be suitable for engineering, so that’s what I chose. I didn’t really give it too much thought at the time.

    • Photo: Ray Alcorn

      Ray Alcorn answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Well… I thought I was going to be an electrician but I just kept going at university and ended up as an engineer!

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