Left Handed Engineers

[Steve R]

Right handed engineer here....  

Maybe that's a valid excuse for why I'm no good at it!  

[Bean]

Ambidextrous Unix numptie here  

[MartinH]

ive met a few with two left hands ,or two right hands iyswim      

I'm a right handed engineer but I've worked a few aircraft where two hands on the left side or two on the right side of the body would have been really useful.

[CrashBangWallop]

Over half of the artists at work are left-handed.  ALL the programmers are right-handed.  Which means, not one creative brain-cell amongst them.

[Asterix]

I've used a left handed screwdriver but I ain't no engineer.

[michaelcoombs]

some interesting stuff here...

[Stuart]

The Aussie's have a saying that the extrovert engineer is one who looks at the other guys shoes when he's talking to him.

I'll get me coat........

[Mal]

I see what you mean Michael, there is a lot of detail in the 'left handed' Wikipedia artical you linked to.

[ChrisG]

Left handed engineer here too, so out of a kit car related friendship group of about 7 people, thats me, Bazzer, Al Yupright and TimD that are all left handed, and there could be more (Boycey, Carl?)

[v7slr]

Stressful birth here... for me and my Mom (read the Wiki).

I was left handed when I started school in 1973 but my teachers made me write with my right hand. I can now write with both equally appallingly but I'm faster with my left.

I can write as fast with either hand when writing on a whiteboard, and I can handle 2 pens in each hand. When I teach, it leaves my "class" stunned when I'm drafting network diagrams on the board in 4 colours simultaneously. Many people call out "Can you see what it is yet" in a faux Rolf Harris accent.

I can write forwards and backwards with either hand, and both at the same time, in either direction.

I'm right handed for everything else except one thing. I shoot a rifle right handed. I play any bat sport with my right. I lead with my right when fighting (Kung Fu) and I throw and catch balls with my right.

I play drums right handedly but with a few oddities. A lot of drummers have "oddities" in their setup. I prefer to use a right handed hi-hat on a remote cable pedal linked to my left foot. Playing open handed leaves me with more opportunities for moving around the kit.

The odd one... I can shoot a pistol with both hands equally comfortably. Don't know why. I think (back when we were allowed to have pistols) I couldn't settle on either hand as being more comfortable to use than the other, so learned to use both. I've often wondered how I'd fare in the Wild West. Early death probably.

Roughly 10% of the population is left handed (some variation to those figures in that Wikipedia report) and roughly 1/3rd of those 10% are left handed in writing *only* (like me).

To have a consistent minority throughout history implies left handedness carries a genetic advantage over right handedness, otherwise it would have died out long ago in the face of such unequal odds. This I heard on one of Melvin Bragg's R4 programmes one morning. Very interesting. None of the contributors could point to any advantage of being left handed over right.

I bet this thread is fascinating to other lefties but only a source of humour for righties.  

[adamnreeves]

I am a left handed software engineer does that count, although I obviously aspire to hardware engineer, does this count?

[geelhoed]

and I throw and catch balls with my right.

Yes, but no the real test: which hand do you use for scratching them?  

[Martin Keene]

Right handed engineer here....  

Maybe that's a valid excuse for why I'm no good at it!  

Ditto...

Probably on both counts!

[michaelcoombs]

Stressful birth here... for me and my Mom (read the Wiki).

I was left handed when I started school in 1973 but my teachers made me write with my right hand. I can now write with both equally appallingly but I'm faster with my left.

I can write as fast with either hand when writing on a whiteboard, and I can handle 2 pens in each hand. When I teach, it leaves my "class" stunned when I'm drafting network diagrams on the board in 4 colours simultaneously. Many people call out "Can you see what it is yet" in a faux Rolf Harris accent.

I can write forwards and backwards with either hand, and both at the same time, in either direction.

I'm right handed for everything else except one thing. I shoot a rifle right handed. I play any bat sport with my right. I lead with my right when fighting (Kung Fu) and I throw and catch balls with my right.

I play drums right handedly but with a few oddities. A lot of drummers have "oddities" in their setup. I prefer to use a right handed hi-hat on a remote cable pedal linked to my left foot. Playing open handed leaves me with more opportunities for moving around the kit.

The odd one... I can shoot a pistol with both hands equally comfortably. Don't know why. I think (back when we were allowed to have pistols) I couldn't settle on either hand as being more comfortable to use than the other, so learned to use both. I've often wondered how I'd fare in the Wild West. Early death probably.

Roughly 10% of the population is left handed (some variation to those figures in that Wikipedia report) and roughly 1/3rd of those 10% are left handed in writing *only* (like me).

To have a consistent minority throughout history implies left handedness carries a genetic advantage over right handedness, otherwise it would have died out long ago in the face of such unequal odds. This I heard on one of Melvin Bragg's R4 programmes one morning. Very interesting. None of the contributors could point to any advantage of being left handed over right.

I bet this thread is fascinating to other lefties but only a source of humour for righties.  

I write left handed but do most other things right handed as well.

It does not make much difference to me what way round text is written, I have a problem with glass doors that say push on the other side or driving down a road and it says no entry on the road for cars coming the other way, i just read it as being the right way round.  

In a art class at school once i had to draw a still life and drew and exact mirror image of it without knowing... not sure what that says about me!    

[Pembroke Pat]

I'm an engineer and so right handed/footed  etc.  I have even noticed that I tend to chew witht he right side of my jaw more than my left ( i.e.  when I bite something then it is with the teeth on the right hand side....................but..........................................................I normally dress to the left!!!!