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| renzoms:
I’m preparing to earn a job after this semester and I’d like to know what positions I might like, recommendations, and insight into a job that will be the bridge between my associates degree and future degree(s). Below, I can post my linkedin bc it has my work experience and education. I’ll also describe it here. I started EE by going to Penn State University for 2 years. I did alright. Between us, I going to class high, partying, not being a role model student. I can post the transcript below, too. I took 3 year gap and worked a few jobs; logistics and catering, bartending and serving, included a highly ranked fine dining restaurant that was the best job I ever had. Around the second half of the 3 year gap I picked up my notebooks from PSU and started reviewing. I ended up at the library. I ended up buying a new book. I ended up buying textbooks, and a lab. I ended up among completing every exercise in an electric circuits textbook, a digital logic w/ verilog textbook, and 4 classes from MIT’s OpenCourseWare, single variable calculus, multivariable calculus, differential equations, and (3/4s of linear algebra). I ended up with a 4.0 last semester and I have one more semester to go until I have all of my credits for an associates degree in EE. I think I’ll get a 4.0 again. And I’m going to complete these textbooks. I can’t afford to earn a Bachelor’s rn, so here I am, learning what job positions I might like, recommendations, and insight into EE. I feel smart. I like the electric circuits more than the digital logic right now. I want a job that will supplement my growing career and compliment what I have done. |
| CatalinaWOW:
The advice I give my children, and most others who ask is not to be too specific in your likes. People hire someone because they have problems they want solved. Engineers like to solve problems. The makings of a lovely match are there. It comes apart when people are too specific in the types of problems they like to solve. Over my career I ending up solving problems in analog electronics, software, automated test, environmental test, manufacturing, field operations and many others. Each offers its own types of challenges and responds to different types of tools. Learning the new tools is fun, and applying tools from other fields where appropriate is rewarding. This advice is saying that your attitude is important. Find the joy in what you are doing each day. Or if it is a bad time, try to average over longer intervals. And my experience is that once you have established a reputation for solving problems the specific training and degrees you have become less important. Still worthwhile, because particularly in large organizations hiring and wages becomes disconnected from day to day success and turned into an algorithm, but not absolutely mandatory for a viable career. Carry on and good luck to you. |
| GlennSprigg:
CatalinaWOW gave an excellent and detailed answer! :-+ I'm not in the U.S. but some things are the same throughout the World. Here's a few things I've learnt/found... Firstly, you said... "I like the electric circuits more than the digital logic right now". That 'seemed' to indicate that maybe you are more presently interested in more generic electrical basics, as opposed to an Electronics career?? There's a vast difference. The first is more of a 'Trade' relationship, for which there are 'usually' many 'Unions' etc that people have to conform to in industry. Of which, there are 2 main types, being 'Domestic' and 'Commercial/Industrial'. The latter is much more involved, and these days due to technology advances crosses boundaries into many facets of Electronic equipment too! However, when (from my experiences) you seek/gain employment from a lot of 'Technical' organizations, their interest is often 'less' on what certificates/qualifications one has, especially working out in the field, as to what they know/feel one could do! And they are also very much non-union oriented. I'm mainly talking about as a contractor, not in-house specific requirements. It's good though, to come up through the ranks, so one can appreciate all aspects of the work, as well as how to work with people and get the best out of them. My 'sore' point throughout the decades, is having to work with 'some' engineers etc that have come straight out of Uni etc, and have ZERO people-skills, and just a head full of formulas/figures! :) The good ones have come up through the ranks, know what it's like to actually achieve goals, and have a realistic & friendly repore' with workers. As CatalinaWOW said, your attitude is most important! and don't lock yourself into specific 'ability' boundaries. In 10 or 20 years, you will still be learning!! |
| iteratee:
You're looking for optimism? I'm optimistic, unsuccessful, and trying to cure both. But alas I simply cannot adjust my expectations low enough to avoid dissapointment, let alone achieve my ultimate dream goal of one day experiencing plesant surprise. |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: iteratee on September 04, 2020, 06:41:11 am ---You're looking for optimism? I'm optimistic, unsuccessful, and trying to cure both. But alas I simply cannot adjust my expectations low enough to avoid dissapointment, let alone achieve my ultimate dream goal of one day experiencing plesant surprise. --- End quote --- I'm curious as to your current age? And what your current expertise/work entails? I can understand if you are say in your 40's and above, the difficulty of gaining new employment, especially in Technical environments, is/can be overwhelming, as many people find. However, if you are in your early/late 20's, you have the World at your feet! :-// Most of us do not have life handed to us on a platter, but make a personal choice to better ourselves, if we so desire. Some people are happy to continue what they are doing, for life. And that's OK!! We can't ALL be Brain Surgeons or Astro Physicists. Sometimes, the simpler life, with wife & kids in a little house with a white picked fence, is all that we either want or need to feel fulfilled... :-+ There is SO much in life that we CAN'T control though, like health/accidents, or in the wrong place at the wrong/right time!! I'm in my mid 60's now, and although I've done a lot, covering vast topics of 'expertise/experience', I will never get any better now, for 2 reasons. Firstly because of my age, and secondly because my time left on this blue/green Planet is now very limited. I really do not know what I would change, if I could do it all again... However, I guess I would still have given it my best shot, as I did, multiple times. It's only NOW, knowing the future I don't have, that even though I plough the Internet and forums like this to keep my mind 'active', that it's rapidly becoming more than I can absorb now, so I'm now just watching it/future all pass by!! YOU, and others, have the power/ability/age to deal with & cross our new Worlds frontiers. :-+ |
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