Hey Bill Nye, "I Can't Quite Decide What to Do With My Life!"
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It's #TuesdaysWithBill, our weekly segment featuring everyone's favorite Science Guy answering viewer questions. Today, rising high school senior Wesley asks Bill for career advice. Is it a problem if you're a teenager and don't know what kind of career you want? (The answer: Of course not.) Plus, how did Bill get involved in engineering?

It turns out the man who would eventually become the Science Guy didn't know anything about engineering until he landed a job in a bike shop. From there, the self-proclaimed social misfit found his way toward mechanical engineering, mostly because he enjoyed (and still enjoys) tinkering with things. So if you're a tinkerer, consider some form of engineering. It's an important field that people really rely on.

As for career pursuits, you can't let social and academic pressures force you into a field you won't enjoy or succeed in. It's okay to be unsure of your future at 18. Heck, it's almost required to be unsure about a lot of things at 18. Wesley, like so many who came before him, will be just fine.
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BILL NYE, THE SCIENCE GUY:
Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life. In Seattle Nye began to combine his love of science with his flair for comedy, when he won the Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night. Nye then quit his day engineering day job and made the transition to a night job as a comedy writer and performer on Seattle's home-grown ensemble comedy show “Almost Live." This is where “Bill Nye the Science Guy®" was born. The show appeared before Saturday Night Live and later on Comedy Central, originating at KING-TV, Seattle's NBC affiliate. While working on the Science Guy show, Nye won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing, and producing. The show won 18 Emmys in five years. In between creating the shows, he wrote five children's books about science, including his latest title, “Bill Nye's Great Big Book of Tiny Germs." Nye is the host of three currently-running television series. “The 100 Greatest Discoveries" airs on the Science Channel. “The Eyes of Nye" airs on PBS stations across the country. Bill's latest project is hosting a show on Planet Green called “Stuff Happens." It's about environmentally responsible choices that consumers can make as they go about their day and their shopping. Also, you'll see Nye in his good-natured rivalry with his neighbor Ed Begley. They compete to see who can save the most energy and produce the smallest carbon footprint. Nye has 4,000 watts of solar power and a solar-boosted hot water system. There's also the low water use garden and underground watering system. It's fun for him; he's an engineer with an energy conservation hobby. Nye is currently the Executive Director of The Planetary Society, the world's largest space interest organization.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Wesley Connelly: Hello Bill. My name is Wesley Connelly. I’m a huge fan of your works. I’m a soon-to-be senior in high school and like many I do not know what I want to do with my life. I love physics, chemistry, just about every science. My question is why did you pursue engineering and what advice do you have for someone who can’t choose what they want to do in terms of a career? Thanks and keep up the good work.

Bill Nye: Wesley, that’s a great question. I had never heard of engineering really until I got a job at a bike shop. Now I am a tinkerer. My friends make fun of me. I am "shiny object" man. I am constantly rewiring things. I’m constantly adjusting this. I live in an apartment building. I’m constantly tweaking little stuff in the building and the building managers are very nice about it. Trying to improve the building. So what I would say is engineers use science to solve problems and make things. So if you find yourself a tinkerer — you mentioned chemistry and physics. These are very traditional engineering disciplines. Everything in the room where you’re sitting, everything that created this computer or scientific principle that allowed the creation of these cameras and this computer came out of somebody’s head...

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