# What is obvious in your profession that YOU don't know? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-obvious-in-your-profession-that-you-dont-know/839634 "2019-09-03T16:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-obvious-in-your-profession-that-you-dont-know/839634/41 "2019-09-06T15:46:05Z")
> [@EdelweissPirate](#): > > _\_ but IME a majority of mechanical engineers are politically conservative and many of those are evangelical Christians. I find this odd. I’m an Aero Engineer by degree, but most of my career (spanning over 30 years) I’ve worked as an ME. In that time, I can think of only a couple of engineers who were evangelicals or who claimed to be (like the lying skeeve I shared a cubicle with for several years.) Generally, religion never came up. I did encounter a fair number who were conservative, but for the most part I’ve worked for or as a contractor for DoD organizations, and they tend to skew to the right. But I’ve encountered my share of bleeding-heart engineers also. I wonder if it’s a geographic phenomenon? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-obvious-in-your-profession-that-you-dont-know/839634/42 "2019-09-06T19:56:55Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Real things that should be obvious would be things like something that came up yesterday… Can a scalar function be run directly from the \_sys\_bic schema? Well, don’t leave us hanging! Can it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-obvious-in-your-profession-that-you-dont-know/839634.md?page=2)