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Design engineers: Can you shut off your brain during non-work hours?
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David Hess:
While thinking about work, I often get inspiration during non-work hours for solving a problem.
T3sl4co1l:

--- Quote from: hans on June 14, 2023, 01:42:50 pm ---Personally I love to play simulator based games, RPGs, team-PvP or PvE, or creative-style games (Tycoons, builders, etc.). The latter can be dangerous though, as there are many games that speak for the engineering analytical mind.

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Oh yes, I've so far avoided the likes of Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, etc.  I have too strong a suspicion I would spend altogether far too much time in them! :-DD

Also for those highly technical / code golfing / nerd sniping types, there's the genre of "Zach-likes" which involve programming [virtual] computers directly, or creating clever mechanisms or such.  Also kinda along that line but also related to older puzzle-sim games like The Incredible Machine (ah, I remember playing that on a friend's Macintosh..!), Opus Magnum comes to mind.

Or if you want a just damned clever reimagining of ye olde Sokoban block pushing game: try Baba Is You.  Not so much a game to unwind, it's very clever at times; this is no accident as the credits is a whos-who of top puzzle crafters today, pretty much all of them had a hand in one level or another.

But yeah, indeed not so much for physical health, but the mental health value of gaming is not at all to be neglected!

Tim
AndyBeez:
How about, design engineers, can you turn on your brain during work hours ??? I'm sure the dudes here can think of a few co-workers of whom, progressed quickly into management.

Seriously though, such is the choice between having a job and having a vocation. If you never think about your tasks outside of working hours then you've got yourself a job. And in ten year's time you'll still be there, happily doing exactly the same job. A vocation is not something you do just for the money, you do it because you have a passion for it. Nursing, teaching, sports, writing and performing arts, are all examples where people are doing it for the passion and not necessarily the pay (especially musicians). Ergo, a job is what you do but a vocation is what you are.

Ask, would you be a creative EE if you were not paid? Of course you would. Be happy, you're an engineer, and you're thinking like an engineer. Even if the engineering volume is a bit too loud in your head right now. I have no idea what your thing is, but whatever it is you find, watch out for interests that might become your next vocation. Or even vacation, if you love doing them too much.
CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on June 14, 2023, 02:35:19 pm ---How about, design engineers, can you turn on your brain during work hours ??? I'm sure the dudes here can think of a few co-workers of whom, progressed quickly into management.

Seriously though, such is the choice between having a job and having a vocation. If you never think about your tasks outside of working hours then you've got yourself a job. And in ten year's time you'll still be there, happily doing exactly the same job. A vocation is not something you do just for the money, you do it because you have a passion for it. Nursing, teaching, sports, writing and performing arts, are all examples where people are doing it for the passion and not necessarily the pay (especially musicians). Ergo, a job is what you do but a vocation is what you are.

Ask, would you be a creative EE if you were not paid? Of course you would. Be happy, you're an engineer, and you're thinking like an engineer. Even if the engineering volume is a bit too loud in your head right now. I have no idea what your thing is, but whatever it is you find, watch out for interests that might become your next vocation. Or even vacation, if you love doing them too much.

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For some in each of those professions it is a job.  Though that is certainly rare in music.
NiHaoMike:
I basically just switch from doing stuff for work to doing stuff for personal projects.
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