In my world of occupation as an engineer, it’s not enough to just know your field. Knowing maths and physics is not going to guarantee your job in the future. Everybody knows that in this ever evolving job market, one needs to continuously learn new things.
Exactly what does that entail? Just take a look at the programs I had to learn over the years…
CFD related: DPLR, Overflow, FieldView 10 and 11
Programming language: C, Fortran 77/90, Pascal, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Scripting: Perl, C-shell script, FieldView script
OS: Windows, Unix, Linux
CAD Experience: MSC/NASTRAN, CADKEY, EDS VisView 4.1
Web: HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Cold Fusion, Microsoft Access Database
Publishing: Adobe FrameMaker 5.5, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat 4.0/5.0/6.0
Other: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Computer hardware & software
So what does that all mean? Just as I have to keep learning and adapt to the working world as it continuously seems to expand, so must our spiritual lives. Always finding and seeking ways to see God in different light, learning of Him in new ways, placing Him outside the box… Why? Because God is infinite and to think/believe that after certain amount of time, that we know Him well enough, is to fool and deceive ourselves. I must continuosly look for Him in this world, seeing His big and small miracles working in people’s lives.
Tomorrow is Good Friday… Thank you God for your gift of sacrifice. Amen.