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I'm currently reading a hilarious manga called "Clockwork Planet". It's amazingly great! Oh...I went too far...Let me come back.

When I'm reading a give page, some guys tsukkomus (comments) on that page with "I used to be an engineer once." Basically, this pic depicts a scene that the main male character expresses his love to the main female character and get accepted. (HALLELUJAH!!!)

This scene is pretty good, but I still don't understand why some guys say "I used to be an engineer." I've googled it but got no appropriate answer. Therefore, I'm very confused. Would you like to give me a explanation to this weird sentence?

And here is the pic on which appear that tsukkomu: Love expressing scene

Thanks in advance. And sorry for my poor use of English, since I'm not a native speaker.

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    I really don't know, but maybe it's a variation on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee – Toshinou Kyouko Aug 02 '15 at 15:07
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's not about anime or manga, but about a user comment referencing a meme. – nhahtdh Aug 02 '15 at 17:20

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Ah, as an engineer myself, I think I know where they're coming from, since my friends have made this joke to me before. If I'm right, this isn't an in-series joke, or even one related to anime & manga at all:

There's a running joke that (male) engineers are hopeless at romance and can't pick up women, likely originating from the fact that engineering is a profession that has a very skewed ratio of male to female participants. While the number of female engineers is increasing over time, the difference in numbers is still comfortably large enough for the joke to be made.

I expect the joke they're making is that since he is no longer an engineer ("I used to be an engineer"), a girl can finally accept his feelings.

Naturally, this has some traction on the internet - here are some examples I've found over my time:

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