Kim Porter runs a community called the Engineering Exchange and has seen every version of "I think I want to be an engineer but I have no idea what that means." So we sat down and talked through all of it — the different types of engineering (there are more than you think), how to figure out if this is actually the path for you, what makes people genuinely good at this work, how to write a resume that doesn't get immediately trashed, and what separates a good engineer from a great engineering leader. No fluff, no gatekeeping. Just the stuff you actually need to know before you go all in on this career.