Dennis Koch

The author has spent over 20 years working across a wide range of technical professions, from bustling workshops and production floors to offices, design rooms, and project sites around the world. Along the way, they have gained firsthand experience with what really happens behind the polished diagrams, impressive job titles, and standard operating procedures—and survived it all with humor intact.

Working alongside engineers, technicians, welders, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, software developers, planners, and countless other tradespeople, the author has seen the chaos, brilliance, and quirks that make technical work both challenging and endlessly entertaining. Tight deadlines, impossible requests, mysterious equipment failures, chaotic meetings, and ingenious problem-solving are all part of daily life—and all fodder for laughter.

These books are written for anyone who builds, fixes, calculates, designs, maintains, welds, or keeps the modern world from falling apart. They don’t teach equations or theory; they capture the shared reality of technical professions: the stress, the pride, the chaos, and the humor that keeps people going when logic alone isn’t enough.

The author believes that humor is one of the most powerful tools in any technical field. A well-timed joke can reduce stress, build teams, and help people survive long nights, broken prototypes, failed simulations, and “urgent” problems that magically aren’t urgent the next morning.

When not writing, the author continues to observe the technical world with curiosity and respect—especially for the people who do the real work, solve real problems, and somehow manage to laugh while doing it.