Is it true that if you are good at math but bad at writing you are not an accountant nor an engineer?

Answer 1

Being a good writer is not essential to becoming a successful engineer. What is vital is working long hours doing research and understanding formulae. I have a friend who is not a good writer yet, he has a Ph.d from a top USA engineering university. He now has a high level job dealing with patents. In fact he has a patent from the US Patent office. I need to update this to help engineers without great writing skills.

In addition to the above, the engineer graduated from a prestigous undergraduate engineering school with honors as he had a 3.6 GPA. As engineers know, major corporations contract with good engineering schools for research. The gentleman I wrote about was named top undergrad research student of the year by a top 15 US corporation. He was recruited to the 5th ranked engineering graduate school. As a student he had clearance to do research in 3 US Gov't labs.

I personally read allot of his "writing" .. it was not great at all. BUT his dedication to the engineering field he was in plus just darn hard work earned him all the "stuff" he has. He's only 32 and earns a 6 figure salary with bonuses. He began college at age 18, spent 9.5 years studying engineering that was loaded with chemistry, phsics and high math levels. For a time he was doing research on new types of lithium batteries for the Mars Probes. And no his writing needed and still needs help. But he communicates with his work products.

Answer 2

No. There is no correlation. There are Accountants who are good at math, and

others who are bad at math. Similarly, there are engineers who are good at

writing and others who are bad at it. Finally, if I have accurately unraveled the

logical flow of the question, there are both accountants and engineers who are

good at math and also good at writing. And since you asked "Is it true that ...",

any counterexample disproves the whole notion. I believe that covers it.