ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel

Creative or Engineer?

Updated on February 13, 2010
N Seventeen
N Seventeen

One thing I discovered late in life was that folk tend to fall into one of two categories, which I term creatives or engineers.

The basic difference is in how they approach life.

A good example would be in the instance where they both had identical bombs to defuse.... the engineer would study the schematic of the bombs design, draw a diagram outlining the wiring circuitry and overall layout, re-examine the schematic and make sure that they were confident they had identified the correct wiring to cut, and..... IF there was sufficent time left on the clock, defuse the bomb.

The creative would look at the bomb, wire cutters in hand and go...."hmmmmm....red or blue?"

Now if you laughed at that, you are probably a creative, if you are 'tutting' you probably qualify for an engineer.

Like many things in Gods creation, God designed fail-safes by putting the control and information in two separate containers.


We see this in marriage as women are loaded with emotive control systems, whereas men are loaded with logic systems.

Individually they are both prone to errors of judgement, when correctly configured together they form a valuable and efficient unit, capable of great things.

Sub section that into creative's and engineers and you have a further complication.

Put two engineers together and you have a perfect household where everything has it's place and is most definitely in it.

Put two creatives together and they will probably have a good chance of finding whatever they need by deducting where they last used it and looking in the pile nearest to that.

But the real bind is that even when correctly configured.... logic with emotion and one creative to the others engineer, it causes grief for both of them, even if the engineer has it worse, because the creative is too busy thinking about something else to worry about why the engineer is fuming in the corner because..... well, who knows, engineers fume, all creatives know that!

Obviously, mismatched can produce the same strict order, or complete chaos, if two creatives or two engineers get married.

Steve Jobs....Creative
Steve Jobs....Creative
Bill Gates....Engineer
Bill Gates....Engineer

Now imagine it in business, where in the 'boring' industries that make all the 'boring' things that make life worth living, the top echelons are normally occupied by engineers.

The creatives are kept in a separate department somewhere, locked away in marketing and design with a lesser chance of corrupting the productive folk who work all day, without a single stray thought interrupting their capacity to produce.....whatever they are working at....with ruthless efficiency.

The creatives meanwhile are brainstorming about how to run a programme to guarantee that they had a better chance of scooping the lottery and never needing to work again in their lives, not that they do anyway, for to a creative thinking up a new bright idea that will enable the world to be different and somehow more amenable, is not actually difficult.

Making that idea come to reality though, needs an engineer.

I have always shared my ideas, and frequently had people say, don't tell people, they will steal the idea, and a few have, and my reply has always remained the same, even when someone has capitalised on my concepts.

I have a thousand ideas a day, if they need to steal one, so be it, for it's the only idea they will ever have.


Engineers are the best to run companies, but normally it's a creative that starts one.

Creatives can have the idea and the enthusiasm and desire to drive a concept from the back of a fag packet in the pub, to the launch of the whatever and the basking in the success, but please don't ask them or expect them to actually make the whotsit, or arrange a distribution chain, or balance the books, for that you need an engineer.

Creative accountants are rather an oxymoron, because if they are creative enough for the average business, then they are probably not good accountants, and vice versa.

But the worse combination to have is one that is relatively balanced, that rare soul who is more or less 50/50 split between creative and engineer.

I'm thinking politicians, creative enough to get ideas off the ground, and worse still engineer enough to force them through to ruination.

So accept the fact that we need both and we need both to work together and realise that it actually only works that way.

Who do you think you are'

Are you a Creative or an Engineer?

See results
working

This website uses cookies

As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.

For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy

Show Details
Necessary
HubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.
Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy)
AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Traffic PixelThis is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized.
Amazon Web ServicesThis is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy)
CloudflareThis is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy)
Google Hosted LibrariesJavascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy)
Features
Google Custom SearchThis is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy)
Google MapsSome articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
Google ChartsThis is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy)
Google AdSense Host APIThis service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Google YouTubeSome articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
VimeoSome articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
PaypalThis is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook LoginYou can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
MavenThis supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy)
Marketing
Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Google DoubleClickGoogle provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Unified Ad MarketplaceThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
OpenxThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Rubicon ProjectThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
TripleLiftThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Say MediaWe partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy)
Remarketing PixelsWe may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites.
Conversion Tracking PixelsWe may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service.
Statistics
Author Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy)
ComscoreComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Tracking PixelSome articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy)
ClickscoThis is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy)