No matter what you’re current job description, you’re really an engineer if…

• choosing to buy flowers for your girlfriend or upgrading your RAM is a moral dilemma.
• you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.
• the sales people at the local computer store can’t answer any of your questions.
• you bought your wife a new CD-ROM drive for her birthday.
• you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
• you can type 70 words per minute but can’t read your own handwriting.
• you comment to your wife that her straight hair is collimated.
• you have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.
• you have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
• you know what http:// stands for.
• you look forward to Christmas so you can put the kids’ toys together.
• you see a good design and still have to change it.
• you window shop at Radio Shack.
• your laptop computer costs more than your car.
• your wife hasn’t the foggiest idea of what you do at work.
• you’ve already calculated how much you make per second.
• you’ve tried to repair a $5 radio.