@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

@arclight Ah, but that's why you're not told legends about on teh inturwebs like the many stories of the efforts of the Nuclear Boy Scout to build a badgeworthy portfolio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwWX_9grrE

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A Brief History of: David Hahn AKA The Atomic Boy Scout

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