All of my aunts and uncles, some second cousins, even my younger first cousins, are engineers or studying to be. At my grandparents' 60th anniversary this past fall, my mother introduced me to some cousin of mine by saying "She's going to school for writing" and he responded, "A writer? Where did she come from?" Which kind of sucked because here I am surrounded by math whizzes working on a writing degree.
So I moped. I moped until a few months later, my mom came home saying her secretary, who's been a family friend (and English writing major) forever, came up with a title for us writers.
Word Engineers.
Sounds fancy now, doesn't it?
Word Engineer...I like it. I'm the same way. My dad is a civil engineer and my mom is a lab rat. Actually, other than my mom and dad very few of them went very far in college or even went to college. But, I like word engineer. I'll have to tell my dad I followed in his footsteps after all
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I could help! The term makes us word engineers feel a little more at home with engineering families.
ReplyDeleteI'm totally stealing this... that's my new title :)
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