[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

[mailing gigaspeeds]

Jerry Gray-Eskue wrote:
> Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?
>   
I was born with it, it's a state of mind, always willing to find out 
stuff, tinker etc...
My whole childhood is based on tinkering, finding out stuff (lego 
technics & mecano as a kid, @ age 9 started electronics with my steph 
dad (he repaired tv's & stuff) @ age 15 started to tinker with 
motorcycles, didnt know anything about them though but was fascinated by 
2 strokes that made 13500 rpm's :p, but that didnt last long ( a year 
later a Ducati store asked me to work for them because I was repairing 
all bikes in the neighborhood)...

I also have this weird mentality of not being afraid to learn a subject 
that seems to be hard for other people, I just tell myself : It was made 
by men, that means I can understand it...
So far it always helped me out where other people would say *this is too 
hard for me, I've not been teached to learn this stuff* ...
As of now I'm 27 year's old, a succesfull unix system engineer (also 
started with linux 6 years ago as a hobby...), work for banks and other 
big companies...
And now I've decided to do sdiy as a hobby because I do too much 
linux/unix @ work :p, it doesn't feel as a hobby anymore...

cheers