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Talking to my mom tonight, she mentioned that I was arguing for the metric system when I was ten. Which would be super cool if I was particularly good at thinking in it by now, but I'm not. I have mass, length and temperature down pretty well. I'm much weaker on volume, speed and pressure. Curse the US Congress for not mandating a switch in the 70s like they promised! One of the few powers explicitly granted to them by the Consitution, and all they've managed to do is a toothless 1988 proclamation that metric is the "preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce". Bah.
ummmmm...
maybe that is part of my lack of an engineering job - or maybe i'm just not patient enough...alot of the "new grad" jobs are for may or june...but an interview would be nice...
Re: ummmmm...
Other than that really horrible idea that WSDOT had for a while where every freeway job had to be done in metric . . . wait for it . . . and english units. Literally, two sets of plans. Because the contractors wouldn't build off metric plan sets. And all the nominals were nominal in both systems, so they were not actual sizes in either. Etc.
It'd take me a while to adjust to metric at this point, but mostly it'd be a matter of getting all the references in the correct units.
But, hell, it has to be better than what I do now; working with architects, I have to translate between feet(decimal feet, engineering standard) and the architectural standard unit of, an inch. Not only do they label everything in feet and inches, but they draw it all in inches. All our cad work is 12x scale difference. I do site development and support architects, so I have to insert architectural drawings, etc., all the time. Big PITA to scale everything.
-B.