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Posted on 1/23/20 at 2:56 pm to HamzooReb
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Oh and he's not wrong about EE classes. Takes a special kind of person to be able to get through all of that.
Awwww. I've never been called special before.
Not in a complimentary way, anyway.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 4:17 pm to tigerhoney
His real world engineering experience will be nothing like his scholastic experience. I know guys with electrical engineering degrees who have done process, civil and mechanical engineering as well as control systems.
I'm a mechanical by degree and have done electrical and mostly done control systems my whole career. If he works for a larger end user company, he'll most likely be doing mostly management type tasks with consultants doing the engineering. One of the best engineers I've ever worked with and a personal friend to this day is an electrical by degree and now is the reliability engineer for rotating equipment for an entire region of a major energy transition company. Another pair I know both headed west and are now major players at the company Valve and one was the lead engineer on the game Half-Life (those two guys are by far the biggest money earners in our group of friends, and it's not even close).
Tell him to make sure he hones his programming/coding skills, that will serve him well.
Tell him his degree work mostly teaches him how to approach and solve problems and specifically, if they are doing it right, how to do so while making reasonable assumptions about certain data.
Most of all, tell him engineering can provide him with a good living doing an interesting job and not to give up.
I'm a mechanical by degree and have done electrical and mostly done control systems my whole career. If he works for a larger end user company, he'll most likely be doing mostly management type tasks with consultants doing the engineering. One of the best engineers I've ever worked with and a personal friend to this day is an electrical by degree and now is the reliability engineer for rotating equipment for an entire region of a major energy transition company. Another pair I know both headed west and are now major players at the company Valve and one was the lead engineer on the game Half-Life (those two guys are by far the biggest money earners in our group of friends, and it's not even close).
Tell him to make sure he hones his programming/coding skills, that will serve him well.
Tell him his degree work mostly teaches him how to approach and solve problems and specifically, if they are doing it right, how to do so while making reasonable assumptions about certain data.
Most of all, tell him engineering can provide him with a good living doing an interesting job and not to give up.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 4:59 pm to mdomingue
didn't read the thread but he can check out patent examiner jobs at USPTO if he doesn't want to be an "engineer"
it's perhaps the best civilian fedgov job there is
it's perhaps the best civilian fedgov job there is
Posted on 1/23/20 at 5:08 pm to tigerhoney
Junior year is the hardest. Stick it out.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 5:20 pm to captainahab
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Person 2 (male) - Graduates in Chem E with honors. Gets first job. Less than a year, quits, goes back to college in Pre-Law. Just got accepted to law school.
This guy is going to be an OT baller at 35 making it rain cash.
Patent attorneys (i.e. engineers with law degrees) make crazy amounts of money ($200k-400k/yr).
Posted on 1/23/20 at 5:28 pm to tigerhoney
Junior year advanced e.e. classes can be tough I hated it was a ton of work. It gets easier and when he graduates easier again.
Practice for 5 years and then move into a sales or management track.
I promise he'll forget all those nasty math classes.
Or, eventually just about any math at all.
Practice for 5 years and then move into a sales or management track.
I promise he'll forget all those nasty math classes.
Or, eventually just about any math at all.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 5:30 pm to GamecockUltimate
quote:Doesnt seem like much given the apparent complexity of the field.
depends where you live, I always heard 120-150 range
Posted on 1/23/20 at 6:23 pm to tigerhoney
Just to add my two cents worth -
Mechanical Engineer here, about 80% of my 30 year career has been managing projects and people. Unless you do consulting engineering, it doesn’t really seem to matter what type of engineering your degree is in. The degree just opens the door. If he wants to, he is in a great position to manage projects and travel since he has a degree in Mandarin Chinese.
Mechanical Engineer here, about 80% of my 30 year career has been managing projects and people. Unless you do consulting engineering, it doesn’t really seem to matter what type of engineering your degree is in. The degree just opens the door. If he wants to, he is in a great position to manage projects and travel since he has a degree in Mandarin Chinese.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 6:26 pm to tigerhoney
Do not quit. Push through and enjoy the rest of your life.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 7:03 pm to mdomingue
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Tell him to make sure he hones his programming/coding skills, that will serve him well.
OMG.... this is his love!! His absolute passion is coding.
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