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I finally decided what Kind of engineer I want to be:

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Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: spidey07
Enjoy the rest of your life as a grunt.

good luck!
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:cookie:

😀
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What are you guys talking about? 🙁


*cowers in a corner*
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now you get to listen to your boss give you assignments right before you leave, and his boss' boss tell you that it is not getting done fast enough. then his boss needs it done even sooner, so you have to work until 8 pm on friday without any OT pay.

yay, the joys of being a grunt engineer.
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Holy christ, that describes my situation perfectly. I am on co-op right now, and I hate my life. I do get overtime right now, but full timers are expected to pull 50-60 hour weeks with no overtime. Yeah, they get dental, thats about the only benefit since the company just redid their whole retirement plan.

I hate Corporate America, but I like my major. So I think I will end up owning a business completely unrelated to my major, but hey, thats what a lot of EE's end up doing.
 
Originally posted by: PowerMacG5
Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: spidey07
Enjoy the rest of your life as a grunt.

good luck!
Click to expand...

:cookie:

😀
Click to expand...

What are you guys talking about? 🙁


*cowers in a corner*
Click to expand...


now you get to listen to your boss give you assignments right before you leave, and his boss' boss tell you that it is not getting done fast enough. then his boss needs it done even sooner, so you have to work until 8 pm on friday without any OT pay.

yay, the joys of being a grunt engineer.
Click to expand...

Holy christ, that describes my situation perfectly. I am on co-op right now, and I hate my life. I do get overtime right now, but full timers are expected to pull 50-60 hour weeks with no overtime. Yeah, they get dental, thats about the only benefit since the company just redid their whole retirement plan.

I hate Corporate America, but I like my major. So I think I will end up owning a business completely unrelated to my major, but hey, thats what a lot of EE's end up doing.
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<--starting a contracting business with his dad..albeit at a snails pace🙁
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Goosemaster

What are you guys talking about? 🙁


*cowers in a corner*
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Engineers are considered the "grunts". no glory, overworked, crapped upon grunts.

"just send it to engineering and let them deal with it"

But RF will be fun for you. TONs of math.
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The math part is the BIG thing.

RF is like black magic. Some people get it, some people don't.
 
Originally posted by: NutBucket
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Goosemaster

What are you guys talking about? 🙁


*cowers in a corner*
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Engineers are considered the "grunts". no glory, overworked, crapped upon grunts.

"just send it to engineering and let them deal with it"

But RF will be fun for you. TONs of math.
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The math part is the BIG thing.

RF is like black magic. Some people get it, some people don't.
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I guess I'll have to become a math bitch then won't I 😀
 
Originally posted by: NutBucket
The math part is the BIG thing.

RF is like black magic. Some people get it, some people don't.
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heh, yep. Very much so.

I "get it" but proclaim all the time "i'm not an RF engineer, so let's send it to engineering and let them figure it out. They need to have it figured out by tomorrow though so make sure you put the screws to them.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: PowerMacG5
Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: spidey07
Enjoy the rest of your life as a grunt.

good luck!
Click to expand...

:cookie:

😀
Click to expand...

What are you guys talking about? 🙁


*cowers in a corner*
Click to expand...


now you get to listen to your boss give you assignments right before you leave, and his boss' boss tell you that it is not getting done fast enough. then his boss needs it done even sooner, so you have to work until 8 pm on friday without any OT pay.

yay, the joys of being a grunt engineer.
Click to expand...

Holy christ, that describes my situation perfectly. I am on co-op right now, and I hate my life. I do get overtime right now, but full timers are expected to pull 50-60 hour weeks with no overtime. Yeah, they get dental, thats about the only benefit since the company just redid their whole retirement plan.

I hate Corporate America, but I like my major. So I think I will end up owning a business completely unrelated to my major, but hey, thats what a lot of EE's end up doing.
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<--starting a contracting business with his dad..albeit at a snails pace🙁
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Good luck. What kind of contracting?

I have three choices for my future as I see it. As I hate corporate America, and can't be my bosses bitch in the sense that I wont work an extra 20 hours a week for no "real" benefit in my eyes, I will either take over my fathers business (which is a company that moves heavy machinery, and does transportation). I could also open an IT consulting business with a friend of mine. As it is right now, I am the IT consultant for my dad (albeit, it is free consulting), which gives me a leg up in both fields. Or, another friend of mine and I would really like to open a gun shop/range.

As I said, nothing related to EE. I am going to school for what I enjoy, not what I necessarily want to do with the rest of my life. I either have entrepreneurship, or a masters degree I could go for.
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
appearantly
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I bet you use spelling and grammar too!
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I've come to the conclusion that if you can't spell and apply grammar properly, you are destined to be an engineer! 😀

(so true for me! 😱 )

P.S. Some of us engineers get OT pay (although working long hours! 🙁 ) so it isn't all bad! 🙂
 
Yeah I'm pretty sure I figured where I'm gonna specialize, I'm currently take EE, and interning at a Hydro Utility.. I think I'm definately gonna go into the Power Industry... either that or automation, I've done both, and enjoy both thoroughly, but we'll see.

Edit: And nicely done deciding on RF, I'll tell you now, learn to love Maxwell and his equations, and anything and everything in Vector calc, it is fun stuff.

--Mark
 
Originally posted by: SaturnX
Yeah I'm pretty sure I figured where I'm gonna specialize, I'm currently take EE, and interning at a Hydro Utility.. I think I'm definately gonna go into the Power Industry... either that or automation, I've done both, and enjoy both thoroughly, but we'll see.

--Mark
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I used to havea roomate that interned at a nuke plant..lucky guy...



he told me that once , jsut for kicks, he managed to sneak about and was wandering the buildign and found what he thought was the main control room (appearantly it was)

jsut for kicks he tried to scan his id card and figured that it would jsut reject him.

turns out that as soon as he swipped it all security came after him, escorted him to the parking lot (he said about 1/2 mile awy) and said that if he ever did that again bad stuff would happen to him...

:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
as an additional note, shouldn't bonkers325 be a lifer?
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fusetalk snafu?

lifer = 10k +, rigt?[/quote]

you aren't allowed to use snafu without spelling it out.

😉

kinda like SNFU
 
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