Evan Glodell Quotes

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

I like building.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I like fixing things.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I just wondered how things were put together.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I'm very much a technical person.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

I really enjoyed working on a building site. I also worked for a couple of months in a mobile phone repair shop. That just wasn't me.

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

I'm an engineer.

I just like building stuff.