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14yo Engineering Gradute Gets Job at SpaceX
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wraper:

--- Quote from: .RC. on June 17, 2023, 09:22:28 am ---These prodigal youths, if they find everything so easy, I wonder how do they fare  when all of a sudden the going gets tough

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The thing is they should not be left stagnating with average children, otherwise exactly this will happen. They should get it increasingly tough so they cannot become complacent.

--- Quote ---when they have never had a tough going before especially today in these big fake woke corporations where the fake corporate image is one of the most important things.  You can not tell them to stop being a cockhead these days.

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In this particular case, SpaceX is not woke though and as it's company controlled by Elon Musk, you won't get paid for doing nothing useful.

--- Quote ---All I can see is that unless properly nurtured, being very smart it would be a curse.
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Yep.
Simon:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on June 17, 2023, 10:21:30 am ---Just get your ticket and get outta there. Don't waste energy fighting with teachers.

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On my last module, I started at the last job and this job agreed to keep paying it. My boss seems to like the idea of formal education.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: .RC. on June 17, 2023, 09:22:28 am ---These prodigal youths, if they find everything so easy, I wonder how do they fare when all of a sudden the going gets tough, when they have never had a tough going before especially today in these big fake woke corporations where the fake corporate image is one of the most important things.  You can not tell them to stop being a cockhead these days.
All I can see is that unless properly nurtured, being very smart it would be a curse.
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Once the novelty of being the young genious wears off, you just become yet another engineer. Ok, so you might have graduated and started work 8 years earlier than everyone else, but no one is going to care if you are 24 with 10 years of exerience vs someone who's 32 with the same 10 years of exerience. There is nothing special about you any more, welcome to the real world.
In fact it could become a disadvantage, as they are hiring a very experienced engineer who probably has a young family and wants stability, and you rock up all baby faced, good luck.
tom66:

--- Quote from: Simon on June 17, 2023, 10:14:32 am ---I really wish university was relevant these days, but I always get a sense that it has been dumbed down, they are just businesses now, and it is a race to the bottom to get people through the door.

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Yes, but this is your experience from a course at the only university that does distance learning - perhaps there is a reason most don't do it for EE?  I'm all in favour of remote working where it's possible but electronics is a difficult field to do fully remotely even if you have a lot of the equipment, nothing quite beats the lecturer standing behind you pointing to the circuit and the scope and explaining things.

The biggest issue I have with university is it is too focused on theory for the average engineer but then again a masters/bachelors is a stepping stone to a PhD or further academic study, so it is just going to be like that.  Perhaps there should be a degree level for people who just want to study engineering theory without getting into the weeds on how semiconductor laser diodes operate.

I have met many people who have gone to university for engineering and a few who have not and would always consider a degree as part of the hiring process, it is certainly not a useless piece of paper it is a genuine qualification and shows that someone has at least some competence.  Now yes, if you have someone with 10yrs experience and no degree and someone with a degree and no experience, then the 10yrs person is going to win out first, but it is a lot harder to get that experience without a degree and often times they will be lacking the theoretical background necessary for some tasks.

I certainly can't say my university course was easy - I worked hard to get the grade I did and it involved a lot of extracurricular hours and study.  Compared to my A-levels (broadly equivalent to upper secondary school / high school for anyone outside of the UK) it was a proper mountain to climb.
Miyuki:

--- Quote from: wraper on June 17, 2023, 10:27:18 am ---
--- Quote from: .RC. on June 17, 2023, 09:22:28 am ---These prodigal youths, if they find everything so easy, I wonder how do they fare  when all of a sudden the going gets tough

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The thing is they should not be left stagnating with average children, otherwise exactly this will happen. They should get it increasingly tough so they cannot become complacent.


--- Quote ---All I can see is that unless properly nurtured, being very smart it would be a curse.
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Yep.

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One can expect such people will be on the autistic savants' spectrum, so they will be bored with other kids and will never fit in with peers, which brings other problems.
Forcing them to sit in school for required years is not a good way, yet in many places, it is this way. Such talents then tend to go to waste.
But you still have the problem with social skills and psychological development and most of them are impaired in this aspect even before they skip all the years of classes.
This problem is mostly overlooked and as we can see most of such people ended badly.
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