Am I a Systems Engineer?

The Top 12 Signs You Are a Systems Engineer:

1. If you have more toys than your kids.
2. You think a supermodel is an abstraction of reality designed to answer specific questions about the real world, not a good looking person.
3. You lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on the differences between verification and validation.
4. You get more excited about Webinars than in-person meetings because the former allow you to “multi-task”.
5. You refer to the tomatoes grown in your garden as "deliverables."
6. You find you really need PowerPoint and SysML to explain what you do for a living.
7. You know hundreds of acronyms but don’t know what most of them stand for.
8. Any time you need to make a decision, you make a spreadsheet with a tradeoff matrix. Buying a car? Tradeoff matrix. Going on vacation? Tradeoff matrix. Refinancing your mortgage? Tradeoff matrix. Planning your wedding? Tradeoff matrix. Tracking your newborn’s eating and sleeping habits? Tradeoff matrix and UML sequence diagram.
9. You carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run.
10. You plan your travel to maximize the number of frequent flyer miles and hotel points.
11. You think Einstein would have been more effective had he put his ideas into an Interface Control Document.
12. You avoid using the words “never”, “always”, “any”, and “all”, but love to use “shall”.