Tom Catena Quotes

I only learned what an engineer was from a college guidance counselor. When she described it, a light clicked on in my head, and I said, 'Yes, that's what I want to do.'

First career I had right out of engineering school was at Lucas film, not working in the movies but working in home theater.

I'm an engineer by training.

I'm an engineer.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

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.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

Television isn't my career. Business is.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

Engineering has proven to be one of the most fruitful tracks of study in the job market, as the skills and training developed by an engineering program are far more versatile than many believed.

Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.

I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.