100% on make sure you can get the job you want where you want. They really should tell people this on the way IN to engineering school, and they don't. (They also don't tell people that half of mechanicals end up in mfg even though they didn't want that degree for a reason.)
(These two factors figured heavily into my eventual switch from ME to SE.)
lol yeah I'm an ME and have a long resume, I've done mostly design of some sort in various industries but a lot of machine design lately, because - naturally - there's a lot of that around here.
Manufacturing (as in Manufacturing Engineer) and quality just seem so .... boring, but a mechanical degree applies to so many fields you can do a LOT of different things.
Yeah I basically didn't know the importance of First Job so I didn't get a design job right out of school. I did liaison/"MRB" engineering at Boeing which is like watching painters paint, then after that couldn't get a design job so ended up in mfg. BLECH, process shit etc, so watching paint dry.
I switched to software as a fresh start that would get me back to problem solving but with creativity in the mix/satisfied, as well as less (basically no) geographic constraints and nice-to-haves like WFH, flexible hours etc.
100% on make sure you can get the job you want where you want. They really should tell people this on the way IN to engineering school, and they don't. (They also don't tell people that half of mechanicals end up in mfg even though they didn't want that degree for a reason.)
(These two factors figured heavily into my eventual switch from ME to SE.)
lol yeah I'm an ME and have a long resume, I've done mostly design of some sort in various industries but a lot of machine design lately, because - naturally - there's a lot of that around here.
Manufacturing (as in Manufacturing Engineer) and quality just seem so .... boring, but a mechanical degree applies to so many fields you can do a LOT of different things.
Yeah I basically didn't know the importance of First Job so I didn't get a design job right out of school. I did liaison/"MRB" engineering at Boeing which is like watching painters paint, then after that couldn't get a design job so ended up in mfg. BLECH, process shit etc, so watching paint dry.
I switched to software as a fresh start that would get me back to problem solving but with creativity in the mix/satisfied, as well as less (basically no) geographic constraints and nice-to-haves like WFH, flexible hours etc.