So I've got these 5 textbooks
(Fund. of Digital Logic, Fund. of Electric Circuits, PEFI, Sendra/Smith, and TAOE).
https://imgur.com/a/4I0V2tJAnd Long story as short as I can make it and my background, I've literally done mv calculus, differential equations, and kinematics, about 3 to 4 times each • at university and MIT's OpenCourseWare. Literally all of the exercises. I'm about to finish these two entire textbooks; Fundamentals of Digital Logic and Fundamentals of Electric Circuits. Literally all of the exercises. Their both about 700 pages and 1500 exercises in total. And wrapping up, I just finished my sophomore year / associates degree checkpoint in ee • so the work I've done fits my college progress.
So the problem I stumbled on (written in string-y thoughts):
I'm wrapping up these books. I started to go through Practical Electronics for Inventors. I planned on going through Sendra/Smith / TAOE, when I finished these (2) books. I flipped through PEFI and realized it was not like I remembered it from when I had first read through hundreds of it's pages about 2 years ago. So now I think that book is a waste of time. And this Digital Logic book appears more to me to be distant from the contents of the Electric Circuits book. i.e. simple processors versus Linear circuits and Laplace Transforms. So now, I'm certain it's worth going through Sendra/Smith and TAOE to advance my skills, to ultimately earn an occupation I love, and I'm kind of like hmm... I know people out there use this information, I know people out there have all sorts of jobs, and I'd like to hear from you folks. Like do you like your job and what is it and what parts of your education do you use. Do you have some recommendation about where I may find it worthwhile to focus based on the jobs I may catch, that turn out to be fun. Do you have any ideas in which I can combine my c programming, and verilog, ee skills, and undergraduate math and physics intellect. Like big picture, fun jobs/careers/fields. Worthwhile projects in my small home lab.
I think F1, sea craft, aircraft, spacecraft, off road vehicles are cool. I also find the idea of automated, smart, voice-activated, app-controlled, home/car/and life technology interesting. I find the idea of electric circuit/device creation cool. I like coding, but I wouldn't give everything up for coding. I see the Gravity suit, the Translogic Mech suit, the fighter jets, the speedboats, the UTV's and racecars, space ships, like Rockets and "Cool" stuff and think "that has some electrical engineering in it".
Then I peek into the ends of these textbooks and see graphs; x and y graphs plotting like changes in the characteristic of a polystyrene capacitor at various frequencies or something. I think maybe I should step away from the textbooks at some point, maybe there's a book I should get soon, maybe you folks can advice me about what to specialize in/do/look into these final 2 years of college.