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Re:Every engineer should do a stint in consulting by kokekolo on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:25AM (#28548000)
> It felt like fraud at times but we pulled it off so well

This hits home. 99% of work for those projects is common sense, and 1% is that special knowledge that you can learn on the job.

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Re:Every engineer should do a stint in consulting by zwp on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:00AM (#28548899)
A colleague used to call this "reading the manual in the bathroom".
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Re:Every engineer should do a stint in consulting by tootie on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:30AM (#28553078)
Exactly. And after you've done it a few times for different businesses you see really clearly what things you have to modulate. Then you just dig up your case studies that solved whichever set of problems they have to prove your bona fides and sprinkle on a bit of innovation and some design splash.
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