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Question answered in Quora - What field of engineering is the most difficult, and why?


It is a very broad question without much of a context, I will try my best to answer.

The short answer is it depends, because every person is different, for example I liked Mechanical Engineering because I like to see, touch and feel things. When I am able to see I am able to understand things better, I am able to think other perspectives better, I am able to think about how I can improve that better, I think that is because that is the way I was brought up. During my vacation days I spent time with my grand father hammering hot iron in his workshop, I have spent time carving and building toys with wood and I enjoy making things. And when I started building Software, it was difficult because I wasn't able to see the programs I was writing, but eventually I figured it out, the reason it was difficult initially because I had not done it before, had a kid that has played with a lot of video games been given that task of writing a program, for him it would have been much easier because he is already used to a lot of virtual things.

I think it is all about comprehending, what is that you are able to comprehend very quickly? And that depends on your past knowledge and comfort with the things you have done in the past.

So it all depends on where you are coming from. I would approach this not from a point of hey, which one is easy or difficult, what makes sense for me to spend my time, what am I going to accomplish in that specific field, if you get a context around why you are doing what you are doing, what inspires you to do that, that would put in a better place to start with and you would make the right choices and also would be lot more fulfilling in the long run.

Also check out my other answer in contextual learning that would help as well

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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