Today’s “Why I Became An Engineer Story” comes to us from ECN reader Douglas Lupo:

The year is 1970, standing in the long chow line on the USS Constellation, CVA64, hot, greasey, dirty and hungry. I look to see how many are a head of me and I see three guys with jackets on….

So, I had to ask them,”Why are you wearing jackets and  and it is 100 degrees out?”.  “Oh, we’re tweets and our shop is kept at 65 degrees to keep the electronics from over heating while we repair and test them.”

Editor’s Note: For those of you who don’t know what a “Tweet” is–because I did not–it’s Navy slang for Naval Aviation Electronic Tech.

I vowed I would get a job in AC and stay clean when I got out of the Navy.  That is the short and sweet of how I became an engineer.

***Editor’s Note: To Celebrate Engineer’s Week (Feb 22-26) ECN will be publishing one engineer’s story per day and starting a new weekly section called “I Became An Engineer”. To share you story email kasey.panetta@advantagemedia.com***

Read the other stories, here:
A Note From The Editor: An Engineer’s Story
I Became An Engineer: Because Of A Lunch Box
I Became An Engineer: Because of Christmas Lights