Originally Posted by gwpercle

Engineers are not required to posses Neatness Abilities.
I have owned an Engineering Company for 45 years , Myself and several other different engineers ( civil, mechanical, electrical and drainage) seem to all have a gross lack of neatness.
None of us are OCD or anal , maybe that's why we lacked the neat gene. Our office manager/secretary is invaluable because she can find anything and everything we can't .
You don't have to be neat and orderly to be an engineer....trust me !
My avatar is a S&W model 58 sitting on my drafting table with a drafting scale...I had to remove a stack of blue prints , notes and papers to get that shot.
Gary