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Advice To a New Engineering Graduate

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What piece of advice would you give (or have you given) to a recent graduate in the engineering field to help them start their career?

 

When I was fresh out of college, an older engineer that I worked with told me that when he was coming up he would spend his lunch hours reading and trying to understand the articles in technical journals.  Then he went on to tell me that there was still time for me to go back to school and become a doctor or a lawyer or anything other than an engineer.  Overall, I'm glad I didn't take the second piece of his advice.  image

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  • I think it all comes down to why you went to engineering school in the first place.

     

    If you like learning new things and building or improving devices, then engineering can be rewarding.

     

    Yes, there are a lot of boring engineering jobs and your opportunities are usually limited by where you live.

     

    That is true for any profession.  For me, it was knowing what I wanted to do, so I went into the aerospace business.

    Yes the work was demanding and I sometimes had to work long hours to meet unrealistic deadlines.

     

    Then I got to see the smile on a pilots face after he flew my little box and it exceeded his expectations for the job it was intended.

    That smile was worth much more to me than anything.  I had changed an important system to new performance, which was primarily used to save lives.

     

    The key to finding success is knowing yourself, identifying what you want to do and learn to bootstrap your jobs to meet your goals.

     

    If you let yourself get stuck in a bad job, then shame on you.  Carpe Diem.

     

    DAB

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  • I think it all comes down to why you went to engineering school in the first place.

     

    If you like learning new things and building or improving devices, then engineering can be rewarding.

     

    Yes, there are a lot of boring engineering jobs and your opportunities are usually limited by where you live.

     

    That is true for any profession.  For me, it was knowing what I wanted to do, so I went into the aerospace business.

    Yes the work was demanding and I sometimes had to work long hours to meet unrealistic deadlines.

     

    Then I got to see the smile on a pilots face after he flew my little box and it exceeded his expectations for the job it was intended.

    That smile was worth much more to me than anything.  I had changed an important system to new performance, which was primarily used to save lives.

     

    The key to finding success is knowing yourself, identifying what you want to do and learn to bootstrap your jobs to meet your goals.

     

    If you let yourself get stuck in a bad job, then shame on you.  Carpe Diem.

     

    DAB

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