re: Engineers/Construction Workers?

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Really good internships and co-ops

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Not to take away from the importance of internships or say that you don't have any "experience", but an internship is just to show that you can work well with people and learn. I had internships and have had interns work for the company I work at. I've never really seen an intern do anything that I would consider important, nor do I think it's enough time to learn anything about a company or a career in general. The 3 months you spend in an internship over the summer is the amount of time I spent working in one of our shops learning one type of tool. And that only taught me how it works, not the situational circumstances that can cause it to fail. I'm not trying to tear your experience down at all, it's just an example. But thinking that internships somehow give you more experience may just be the very thing that annoys people with experience.

(And I'm not trying to take the experienced old guy side, because those people annoy the crap out of me even more)