/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>24492596
I'm an electrical engineer in the DoD at 23. My degree was in computer engineering. It isn't that difficult to get a job with a contractor or the DoD directly if you are aware of a hiring initiative. Tinker, Robins, and Eglin AFBs have all recently begun direct hiring initiatives with the based given the authority to hire as-needed. This basically means they'll hire anyone because money is no object to the federal government. I'm sure there are plenty of others as well. Applying to contractors that work with these bases is also easy, as they know the bases will pay them.

At the end of the day, all these employers are looking for is a few shitty lines on your transcript that say "yep, he took thermo" and "yep, he passed diffeq", and then they take a look at your GPA and you're a valid candidate. From that point forward it's a simple interview, which you can find ample tips online to perform well in. Whatever you do, do not settle for a non-engineering job if you can help it. I am as comfy as can be, making $76k this year and $87k next year in a rural part of the country. If you adjusted my income for a large city such as, say, Chicago, I would be making about $120k in order to have the same purchasing power I do now.

I believe in you anon. There was a guy in his late-20s graduating with me and he secured a cozy job at Raytheon. The middle of an engineering degree is hell, but don't get demoralized by it. The signing bonuses alone are worth it, I had a $17k signing bonus and all of it went to link. I also have $10k bonuses my second, third and fourth years, in addition to the usual annual bonuses. Every last penny of those bonuses is going to my crypto portfolio. I don't know of any other industry with bonuses as consistent and ample as engineering.

If you work in finance, I think you will legitimately hate your job. I work with cool shit every day and the dumb bitches I take on dates always think I'm a secret agent or some shit.

>>24462260
Is that really how it happened for you? I accidentally clicked /biz/ when I visited the 4chan homepage by accident in November 2017, and stuck around for a bit because wojak memes were funny. I ended up lurking and learning a little more, and I asked a couple questions in a LINK thread. An anon gifted me 50 LINK out of the kindness of his heart (I didn't ask, was worth $20 at the time), and to this date I still have no idea where he is now or what his original LINK stack was. He sent the LINK directly from Binance, so I couldn't view his wallet contents. I was a poor student at the time and put every little bit of savings I had into LINK, and promised him I wouldn't sell early. I now have a little over 2k LINK, and continue buying now that I have an engineering job.

I don't even know if he remembers, but he may have set me down the path of financial independence some point this decade. I have no clue who he is, or what his stack is. A part of me is curious, and I hope to God he makes it. It was probably one of the nicest things a stranger has ever done for me. I've been a /biz/ regular ever since, and have never told this story since. This board has been through its ups and downs ever since, but it's one of the best things that's ever happened to me oddly enough.

Whoever you are anon, thank you. I never sold that original 50 LINK, and I'm still holding it through thick and thin.