Civil Engineer

The Mystery Profession

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My dad was an engineer of sorts. He was also an inventor. He was also, according to his siblings (who all seemed to agree on this point, and never voluntarily withheld the information), lazy: they’d recount how he’d sit by the edge of the potato field dreaming about (or up, depending on viewpoint) a machine that would harvest the potatoes rather than, like the others — i.e., his siblings, actually…