Engineering Is A Job Without Stress

The classic "Hide The Pain Harold" meme strikes again, but with an engineering twist! Bob claims to be 28 while looking 65 - that's what happens when you spend four years calculating beam deflections and the next four debugging code that worked perfectly yesterday. Engineering isn't stressful? Sure, and thermodynamics is just a suggestion. Nothing says "flexible job" like pulling all-nighters because the client changed requirements for the fifth time this week. That smile isn't happiness - it's the thousand-yard stare of someone who's seen too many failed simulations and impossible deadlines. Engineers don't age - they just approach their stress limit asymptotically.