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Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:37:02 2015 No.739597 [Reply] [Original]

Is anyone an electrical engineer and how has the business treated you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:41:06 2015 No.739600 In utility, not bad. Make a decent leaving out of college but it tapers off real quick. People are impressed but I think more or less anyone can get a degree if you have basic understanding of calculus. Any more questions?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:45:32 2015 No.739602 >>739600 Do you work for a company or is it independent?

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:50:46 2015 No.739606

>>739602
Work for a power company. I have no reason to complain, but I do. I'm in the 10% of salaries in my age group, am leading union contractors in project, and have a company car. Boss is cool too. I hate the bureaucracy of working in a large company tho. Trying to take my experience to a start up that I've been cooking with my friends.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:53:36 2015 No.739609 >>739606 Do you get paid well?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:55:33 2015 No.739612 >>739606 what area? ComEd?

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:56:54 2015 No.739615

>>739609
I said I'm in the 10% of my age group so yes. I'll tell you right now, it's not your education that will sell you, it is you. I had a 2.7 GPA, but some experience in the field so they appreciated that and I did decent on the interview. They saw I was competent and threw harder tasks at me. I recommend you don't get into the field unless you have an interest. I have seen people crack from the classes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 21:58:07 2015 No.739616 >>739612 No, but Im not going to say. Im in the north east and a bunch of our employees are from there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:00:17 2015 No.739619 Pro tip: If you want instant money, join your local union and get into substation work. It's feast or famine for work, but the feast is $45 as a journeyman. Excluding overtime and benefits.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:02:31 2015 No.739622 >>739619 I'm not sure did there are any local unions around here. My father does kinda the same thing always traveling but wouldn't it get lonely sometimes?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:07:35 2015 No.739627 >>739597 Tip. If you arent cut out for management just acvept that shit and keep actually engineering. No need to have a nervous breakdown in your 50's

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:09:31 2015 No.739629 File: 37 KB, 466x414, Texas Map.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>739622 You have a local union if you're in america. It's a local union because it's just an area. You don't leave the state, you just have a new project in your local

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 22:10:22 2015 No.739631 Yes on the sales end. Its an unpleasant mix of boring and stressful but pays well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:03:20 2015 No.739778 >>739597 I know a guy that does it makes good money, chill industry, seems happy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 30 00:08:52 2015 No.739789 Yeah, I do FPGAs. It's not bad. EEs get expensive toys so we don't make as much as the software guys.

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