Guys, what 60s TV character most influenced you to pursue a STEM career?

Guys, what 60s TV character most influenced you to pursue a STEM career?

  • Lt Uhura

  • Nurse Chapel

  • Maureen

  • Judy

  • Penny

  • Jeannie

  • Aunt Bea

  • Other (must be 60s; and not Ginger or Mary Ann [asked and answered in multiple threads already])


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Poll adapted from a workplace discussion this week that drifted far off the original topic of robots. Keep it clean please. Sorry aviatrixes, you will need to create your own poll.
 
None of the above. It wasn’t known as STEM, then, but it’s always been in my blood.
 
Always loved planes. When my eyes went bad, if I couldn’t fly for the USAF, I decided to help design them.

Sky King, Penny and the Songbird were a never miss experience in my long ago youth.

Cheers
 
So you have to be a geezer to vote?
 
NOTA. I wasn't alive then, and I bailed on the engineering career after 8 years for a job that pays 3-4 times more.
 
Mr. Spock mostly inspired science in me...

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But Dianna Rigg got me watching 60's reruns...

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Always loved planes. When my eyes went bad, if I couldn’t fly for the USAF, I decided to help design them.

Sky King, Penny and the Songbird were a never miss experience in my long ago youth.

Cheers
Funny, I tried to join USAF right after high school to be a hot-shot fighter jock, and was told that "with those glasses, the best we can do is a navigator on a C-130" or something similar. I did end up as a civilian programmer for them from 1995-2000, just by happenstance.
Sky King rocked—at least when I was very young. I've watched a few episodes recently; one can never go home again, as they say.
 
Was never inspired by fictional characters, always by real ones. Guys like Einstein and Oppenheimer. But boy did I have some serious hots of Daphne. Even as a little kid I didn't want to see Scooby or Shaggy, I wanted Daphne.
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Emma Peal, definitely. I had a '93 Range Rover Classic LWB that I loved, and spent a lot of time underneath... I named her Emma.

A very close second... Julie Newmar's Catwoman..

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So you have to be a geezer to vote?
What if you're older than a geezer?

My decision to make my career in what is now called STEM was made in the early 1950s when I read the 1947 book, "Juan of Manila," a true story about a boy in the Philippines who cobbled together a radio transmitter during the WW2 Japanese occupation. It inspired me to get my ham license at age 12 and the rest is history.

My mom wouldn't let us get a TV as she thought it would interfere with our homework.
 
I assume you'd have to know what STEM and words like "aviatrixes" mean, which is why I didn't vote.

Okay, I Googled it. Not "aviatrixes" as I can figure that one out.

But as to the OP's question, Mary Ann hands down. She wasn't a career influence, I always just had the hots for her. She reminded me of my best friend's mom. (Don't tell my best friend about that, shhhhh.)

Baby is looking a little harsh these days though...
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NOTA. I wasn't alive then, and I bailed on the engineering career after 8 years for a job that pays 3-4 times more.

Then why aren’t you flying a Cirrus Vision Jet or at least a SR-22:D

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Then why aren’t you flying a Cirrus Vision Jet or at least a SR-22:D

Cheers

They don't like grass strip operations. :)

And I'm closer to retirement than I should be, so I'm kind of putting that money away.
 
This thread seems to be less about inspiring young men to get into STEM, and more about making young men want to get into... never mind...
 
All of those are too new. I was a big Fireball XL-5 junkie as a kid (my first school lunchbox was a Fireball XL-5 one).

Dr. Venus:


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NOTA. I wasn't alive then, and I bailed on the engineering career after 8 years for a job that pays 3-4 times more.

I was thinking of doing something similar. But I was never very good at chemistry...
 
Was never inspired by fictional characters, always by real ones. Guys like Einstein and Oppenheimer. But boy did I have some serious hots of Daphne. Even as a little kid I didn't want to see Scooby or Shaggy, I wanted Daphne.
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How could you even notice Daphne when Velma was around? And being the brainiac, she was MUCH more of a STEM inspiration.


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I'm assuming if I don't know what STEM means then I don't have a career in it. :D
 
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