Funmurphys: the Blog

Lights, Engineering, Depression

While I find a brisk walk on a cool but sunshiny day to be a wonderful mental tonic, I don't know that there's measurable benefit to people who are actually depressed. Dr. Ilardi thinks there is, though.

Hmm, how does this play with the ranking of the least depressing fields: Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors? Maybe including the surveyors who spend most of their time outdoors I imagine, as opposed to we engineers who spend most of our times in human sized mazes under florescent light, is the secret to the lack of depression in those fields. Farming, Fishing, and Forestry isn't far behind, so maybe there is something to this after all.

No matter, I work in a profession that is fun and productive. Maybe that's why my fellow engineers are in such good mental health, whether we are like cavemen or not.