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SandWitch · 26-30, F
@popmol
I was inducted into the Navy Engineering program when I was 18 years old and then left the navy with an engineering degree in marine propulsion design to my credit where I then applied that background in a similar, but civilian corporation who do marine contract work for the Royal Swedish Navy.
It's actually pretty normal for someone in Sweden to start an engineering program immediately after graduating high school because the vast majority of Swedes are highly educated anyway, which means that my entry into the military engineering program was pretty mainstream at the time.
What were you doing at 18 years of age?
I was inducted into the Navy Engineering program when I was 18 years old and then left the navy with an engineering degree in marine propulsion design to my credit where I then applied that background in a similar, but civilian corporation who do marine contract work for the Royal Swedish Navy.
It's actually pretty normal for someone in Sweden to start an engineering program immediately after graduating high school because the vast majority of Swedes are highly educated anyway, which means that my entry into the military engineering program was pretty mainstream at the time.
What were you doing at 18 years of age?
popmol · 26-30, M
@SandWitch well you make it sound so impressive! even if its a normal thing.
i went for a degree in engineering and automatisation. which i switched from due to some reasons but shouldn't have, went into programming which i failed at to switch to a lighter form of programming which i still failed at leaving me now without a degree and no clue what to do in life.
therefore a cool engineer who went underneath antartica all before 30 is very impressive compared to what i'm doing.
i went for a degree in engineering and automatisation. which i switched from due to some reasons but shouldn't have, went into programming which i failed at to switch to a lighter form of programming which i still failed at leaving me now without a degree and no clue what to do in life.
therefore a cool engineer who went underneath antartica all before 30 is very impressive compared to what i'm doing.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@popmol
What I've discovered for sure about life is that we cannot do anything unless we were actually suppose to be doing it. If you were suppose to be in an engineering program, you would have been.
The reason you weren't doing engineering is because you were suppose to be doing something else instead. From that perspective then, don't ever feel defeated for what you 'never did'.
I should point out that I never went underneath Antarctica, which is at the south pole. I went underneath the polar ice cap in the Arctic which is at the north pole.
The difference between Antarctica and the Arctic is one of being either a continental land mass versus being a floating iceberg.
Antarctica (at the south pole) is actually a 'continent' comprised of land, dirt and rock which is covered by a glacier which makes it look similar to the north pole.
The Arctic on the other hand is not a continent, but instead is a region because there is no land mass underneath the north pole. This means that the polar ice cap of the Arctic (Region) is nothing more than a giant floating iceberg that's bobbing around in the Arctic Ocean.
Because Antarctica (at the south) has land underneath it's glacier, a submarine cannot travel underneath it or else it will run aground if it tries!
Because the Arctic Region is comprised of a giant floating iceberg, it means that a submarine can pass underneath the base of that floating iceberg with relative ease.
What I've discovered for sure about life is that we cannot do anything unless we were actually suppose to be doing it. If you were suppose to be in an engineering program, you would have been.
The reason you weren't doing engineering is because you were suppose to be doing something else instead. From that perspective then, don't ever feel defeated for what you 'never did'.
..therefore a cool engineer who went underneath Antarctica all before 30 is very impressive compared to what i'm doing.
I should point out that I never went underneath Antarctica, which is at the south pole. I went underneath the polar ice cap in the Arctic which is at the north pole.
The difference between Antarctica and the Arctic is one of being either a continental land mass versus being a floating iceberg.
Antarctica (at the south pole) is actually a 'continent' comprised of land, dirt and rock which is covered by a glacier which makes it look similar to the north pole.
The Arctic on the other hand is not a continent, but instead is a region because there is no land mass underneath the north pole. This means that the polar ice cap of the Arctic (Region) is nothing more than a giant floating iceberg that's bobbing around in the Arctic Ocean.
Because Antarctica (at the south) has land underneath it's glacier, a submarine cannot travel underneath it or else it will run aground if it tries!
Because the Arctic Region is comprised of a giant floating iceberg, it means that a submarine can pass underneath the base of that floating iceberg with relative ease.
SandWitch · 26-30, F
@popmol
Very true about Santa and the icebergs! That is also why if the polar ice cap completely melted in the Arctic, nothing would happen... meaning the oceans wouldn't rise.
But if the south pole melted on continental Antarctica and the glacier on the continent of Greenland melted at the same time, the ocean levels would rise about 1 inch or 25 mm.
Very true about Santa and the icebergs! That is also why if the polar ice cap completely melted in the Arctic, nothing would happen... meaning the oceans wouldn't rise.
But if the south pole melted on continental Antarctica and the glacier on the continent of Greenland melted at the same time, the ocean levels would rise about 1 inch or 25 mm.