Engineering?

Ever since I've graduated from Environmental Engineering I really haven't found too much use from the knowledge I've gained except for enlightening a friend here and getting a quiz show question there. But what I realized is that I understand people more. I came to this realization when I was at Tim Horton's with my family I can't of acted as kind of mediator between my family member in terms of gestures that require responses and even in what they mean. It was kind of freaky how I understood but there's always the factor that I've lived with them for some twenty-one years...