
Flint Farley
Mechanical Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Mechanical Engineer
I'm a mechanical engineer overseeing contract administration for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Every day, I wake up, head to work at 7 o'clock, have a cup of coffee, and check out my calendar to see what kind of meetings or inspections I have scheduled for the day. I'm currently overseeing over 140 million dollars-worth of projects that I have to keep an eye on, so a typical day might involve overseeing the piping on an aircraft carrier, then driving 50 or 60 miles to oversee the duct work being done at a school. Then I hang up my hat at 3:30 p.m. and go home.
Here's the first step for high school students
You have to have an interest in (if not a love for) mathematics. If you don't like math, chances are, engineering is not the field for you. I took two years of calculus and differential equations, as well as physics, so it's going to be very hard for you to get through those if you don't enjoy doing math.
"You need to take things more seriously and stop being such a class clown."