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| If you have degree's, how hard is it to find work from home EE jobs ? |
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| MathWizard:
I'm not thinking of if you had your own projects to make/sell, I mean doing some useful work for companies, maybe even on the other side of the world. Over the internet. |
| jonpaul:
can your price compete with the Chinese or Indian, perhaps 2$/hr |
| T3sl4co1l:
For what it's worth, in all my years I've never been asked to show my degrees. Of course, I don't know whether my schools have ever been contacted to confirm the same. They're welcome to, and will confirm it correctly of course (unless they tend not to give out that info because of privacy, I don't know honestly). Yes, "other side of the world" probably isn't going to happen, at least economically speaking. If you want to do it for fun I guess you could. But yeah, there are people looking for that sort of thing. You'll have a lot of sorting to do to to find good starting jobs to build a reputation (say on a freelance website), or for longer engagements / larger clients / more traditional contractor or employee relationships maybe the usual stuff (resume, references, networking..). Tim |
| MathWizard:
There's more EE jobs and tasks than I can imagine, but some would be like designing circuit X in simulators, and maybe making a prototype and testing it at home. Or maybe someone just specializes in 1 field and has their own home lab and just always does whatever. What about stuff where you never see or make circuits, but you just have to calculate stuff/go through equations all day ? I have a few math tools, I wish I lived in a time period when someone paid me to use them (I don't have degree's yet tho) |
| SiliconWizard:
Degrees for "online" freelancing will not make your life much easier. While the demand for freelancers has grown a lot, there's even more competition, so that's tough. Sure, as you establish your reputation with provable experience and success, you'll relatively easily stand out, but when starting, it will be tough. Your degrees won't help competing against literally thousands of young and well-educated engineers that will work for $10/hour. Those have degrees as well. That's a problem if you want to use one of those freelancing platforms. Now if you do without those platforms, access to clients will be much tougher and you'll have to fully handle your marketing. And probably you'll target more local clients. But at least, you'll have much less competition. |
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