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deadlyapp said:
Coworker went to NC state for industrial engineering. Does appear to be a good school and not having to choose a major before you go in is helpful - although you want to be careful to not jump around too much and ultimately delay graduation.

If you have any other questions about mechanical engineering feel free to pm me and i'd be happy to answer you. Can also give fairly good information regarding employment afterwards although it varies significantly from school to school i've found.
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I'm not going to hope around like 5 majors. Im pretty much set on what I want to do as a major. Its a narrow set, well just one+one broad. Getting into NC State for engineering is hard :/ WORK HARD!

Like right now, studying to HOA and its 12;30am
 
I'm a Chef and am able to work anywhere in the country doing a job I love for peanuts. There a few who get paid very well. The vast majority get paid just enough to get by. I chose the profession with my eyes open and mostly think it was a good choice.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
I'm a Chef and am able to work anywhere in the country doing a job I love for peanuts. There a few who get paid very well. The vast majority get paid just enough to get by. I chose the profession with my eyes open and mostly think it was a good choice.
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Im waiting for you to open your diner. I want to visit (when Im older)
 
I went to school with intention of going in IT server support. Started at a helpdesk for a few years, did server support for another few years, and now I work in a NOC (network operations centre). All same company. (ISP/Managed services provider) One would say it's a downgrade from server, but the nice thing with NOC is it's not customer facing, the job itself is a little bit of everything and the shift work is great. I work with DMS phone switching, monitor customer server, router, switching equipment, fiber optic transport, CDMA cell service, environmental stuff etc etc... we have a good 1000 or so COs that we monitor.

It's kinda like a fireman job, normally you just don't do much and wait till something happens, but when something happens, it can be crazy. Stuff like forest fire and storms tend to cause all sorts of troubles that need to be managed. Big power outages can keep us busy as well, monitoring battery voltages, sending contractors with generators etc...

In very simple terms, our job is to make sure telco services continue to be operational.
 
It's very hard these days OP. Alot of jobs have been outsourced to India and other countries, and alot of jobs have been replaced with technology. Study the job market well and the future job market well before committing to a field. For example, all my peers in school became Pharmacists. They did a four year degree to earn $20/hr and struggle to find a job...that's catching a pretty bad break. I lucked out to a degree, did Finance, joined an IB before sh!t hit the fan in accounting, got my professional qualification, and now made the jump into my dream area of quantitative analysis.

You may have to accept whatever you get. Appreciate the times we are living in and be happy 🙂

And never give up on your dreams!
 
Might as well ask in this thread. Do we have any civil engineers in the house? I just completed second year, well technically it was first but whatever. I've done some mathy/sciency courses and was pretty much adamant in getting some sort of pharmaceuticals/chemistry degree for the money.

But I've kinda rethought my whole life plan and decided I want to do what I would enjoy out of the 2 or 3 things I really dig. I've always been interested in infrastructure and development. What are the career outcomes here? Specifically urban development related civil engineers, the ones dealing with transportation and water resources
 
Tax accountant at a firm. I've looked into other fields but I've pigeon holed myself pretty good. I'm still working right now and will probably be doing so every night until 10/15. I wouldn't suggest this career to anyone that isn't a glutton for punishment. anther path that I've considered with my background is FBI as they have preferential treatment for accountants.
 
amish said:
Tax accountant at a firm. I've looked into other fields but I've pigeon holed myself pretty good. I'm still working right now and will probably be doing so every night until 10/15. I wouldn't suggest this career to anyone that isn't a glutton for punishment. anther path that I've considered with my background is FBI as they have preferential treatment for accountants.
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I was pretty pigeon holed as well. Was an accountant at a large IB in Aus. Fortunately, I was doing a Masters degree and learnt some systems that their analytical department used. An internal gig popped up and I was lucky enough to get it (got the job offer today haha). No longer an accountant!

But I feel your pain. I met with so many recruiters and they all said I was an accountant and I should stick to my field..
 
Dominato3r said:
Might as well ask in this thread. Do we have any civil engineers in the house? I just completed second year, well technically it was first but whatever. I've done some mathy/sciency courses and was pretty much adamant in getting some sort of pharmaceuticals/chemistry degree for the money.

But I've kinda rethought my whole life plan and decided I want to do what I would enjoy out of the 2 or 3 things I really dig. I've always been interested in infrastructure and development. What are the career outcomes here? Specifically urban development related civil engineers, the ones dealing with transportation and water resources
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My dad got his masters in computer engineering

If that's close enough to civil engineering.
 
Dominato3r said:
Might as well ask in this thread. Do we have any civil engineers in the house? I just completed second year, well technically it was first but whatever. I've done some mathy/sciency courses and was pretty much adamant in getting some sort of pharmaceuticals/chemistry degree for the money.

But I've kinda rethought my whole life plan and decided I want to do what I would enjoy out of the 2 or 3 things I really dig. I've always been interested in infrastructure and development. What are the career outcomes here? Specifically urban development related civil engineers, the ones dealing with transportation and water resources
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Civil engineering allows you to do a fair amount depending on how you want to specialize. In california a lot of my CE friends went into structural work (for obvious reasons), but a number also went into the more seemingly mundane fields such as heavy civil (bridges, freeways, etc) or land/water use (sewer, drainage, etc).

I think if you do well and you get an internship or two, you've got a good chance at doing well. Unfortunately construction is still in a dip and civil engineering/structural engineering/architectural engineering/architecture are all seeing a pinch in the job market. A fewof my friends that graduated in these fields are doing relatively low wage jobs to get them into the market
 
Chemical Engineering bachlor's Degree.

Work as a Chemical Engineer in a Car part company on the paint process part.

Thinking of going back to school in a few years for law to work on becoming a patent Lawyer.
 
<------I don't recommend it. I make decent $$ now that I'm self employed but could have been making decent $$ way back in 1986 if I'd actually studied while getting my Comp E. degree. I'm waaaaaaay behind on retirement $$.
 
deadlyapp said:
Civil engineering allows you to do a fair amount depending on how you want to specialize. In california a lot of my CE friends went into structural work (for obvious reasons), but a number also went into the more seemingly mundane fields such as heavy civil (bridges, freeways, etc) or land/water use (sewer, drainage, etc).

I think if you do well and you get an internship or two, you've got a good chance at doing well. Unfortunately construction is still in a dip and civil engineering/structural engineering/architectural engineering/architecture are all seeing a pinch in the job market. A fewof my friends that graduated in these fields are doing relatively low wage jobs to get them into the market
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Heh, the things that you list are mundane are the ones I'm most interested in 😛. It's interesting you say that the market is in a dip, I would have thought otherwise given the aging infrastructure plaguing so many countries. I think it's a fairly solid field, I was doing some research on job finding sites and there's seems to be a lot of internships being handed out by municipal, federal, and contractors. Plus the area that I live in fairly underdeveloped for the type of growth it's facing.

I thought medicinal chemistry would be fun, but it's anything but. Biology and Chemistry combined makes you want to pull your hair out
 
Dominato3r said:
Heh, the things that you list are mundane are the ones I'm most interested in 😛. It's interesting you say that the market is in a dip, I would have thought otherwise given the aging infrastructure plaguing so many countries. I think it's a fairly solid field, I was doing some research on job finding sites and there's seems to be a lot of internships being handed out by municipal, federal, and contractors. Plus the area that I live in fairly underdeveloped for the type of growth it's facing.

I thought medicinal chemistry would be fun, but it's anything but. Biology and Chemistry combined makes you want to pull your hair out
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luckily I'm not a good chemist or a biologist
 
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