 George Hamasaki
Electrical Systems Engineer
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
Seattle, WA
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 B.A. -
Electrical Engineering, Oregon State University
M.S. -
Electrical Engineering, University of Washington |
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Electrical Systems
Engineer, serving as the Lead Engineer over a Proximity Sensing
System Group. |
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"Engineers who find
administration and business unappealing may need to change
positions or companies for one where they can do the technical
work." |
 
"I like to do a lot of things outdoors. And, you know to me, there's more
opportunities up here in the northwest than down in Silicon Valley in
terms of skiing and you know, mountaineering things which is what I'm
pretty active in now."
One of the things that attracted George Hamasaki to Boeing was its
location. Although Seattle is a long way from his native Hawaii, it
combines a job and a lifestyle that are right for him. Not only is the
pace of life more human than in the Silicon Valley, but also he can spend
his personal time skiing and mountaineering. In fact, Hamasaki's
expectations when he came out of college and took his first job did not
match the realities of the working world. He expected to find "the type of
atmosphere the school portrayed. . .in the sense that he had a lot of
laughs and he did a lot of calculations and technical things in order to
figure out why things were happening a certain way." Instead, he found
himself much less involved in technical issues "because a lot of the other
suppliers and vendors do the actual designing," and he "ended up just
giving requirements instead of doing the technical work."
Hamasaki believes that engineers who find administration and business
unappealing may need to change positions or companies for one where they
can do the technical work. For others, time brings a different
perspective. "As you grow and you get to understand more about what your
work's all about, your focus shifts and you start to realize, 'Well, maybe
this is something I may want to do as a career.'"
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