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I would do a great job of scaring kids away from engineering. Let's see, here's a typical day...
-Get coffee.
-Check e-mail, see if anything broke.
-Get coffee.
-Join my coworkers in cursing the marketing department for bothering us with requests to change the font color or add a graphic to a website because they don't think we have anything else to do.
-Call software company to see if they ever fixed the glaring bug in their product that's holding up something on our end. Whoops, they're in California and won't be open for another 2 hours.
-Get coffee.
-Troubleshoot one of my programs that broke, realize it was because someone else nuked a database table that it depends on.
-Fire up Visual Studio, get back to work on whatever project I have at hand.
-15 minutes later, be interrupted by marketing person acting like the future of the company is at stake because nobody has yet changed the font on some website to the correct shade of orange.
-Get rid of them, then 5 minutes later be interrupted by someone saying the server's down. Test it, works fine, say "works fine for me", watch them walk off in a huff (that response always pisses people off).
-Get coffee.
-Get back to project at hand, curse IIS for crashing with some cryptic error and a code. Do a Google search on the code, find a Microsoft website that lists nothing more than the code and the same meaningless message that shows up in the event log.
-Go outside and have a smoke.
-Come back, start tracking down the problem, get a phone call from some jackass who wants to know how my evalutation of something I looked at 3 months ago went.
You get the idea...
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