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Reposting this. Found it at work, (its formatted to fit better, real one was like 2 screen long.). This was written by a guy who thinks he is amazing at programming and if you say anything bad about any code he wrote its obviously a personal attack against him because you want to undermine his career or some shit.

Any (actually) employed engineers here? I've got a question. A friend of mine did both his undergraduate and Masters degree at Carnegie Mellon in mechanical engineering. He did everything he was supposed to do, he managed to keep a 3.8 his whole time, joined relevant clubs, joined an engineering fraternity and made connections.

He did side projects and showcased them all over social media, taught as a teaching assisstant / adjust professor during grad school, but after he graduated, the dude was unemployed for over 2 years and just recently found a job working MINIMUM WAGE at an engineering firm.

What the fuck gives? Does MechE just not pay off? Most engineering students, even the mediocre ones, can expect a job upon graduation, usually anywhere from $60k - 160k depending on field an location, but this guy just got buttfucked. What can I do in my time as undergrad to avoid this type of situation?

Granted I realize his case is special, and that a majority of engineering students find jobs that pay well, but it seems MechE is having a really rough time lately.

Also, for reference, I'm doing EE with a focus in CPU architecture, sometimes called CompE or ECE. So hopefully I'll have better outlooks.

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>>8668831
Traditionally those pics are made from real world code.

Pic related is from a project I worked on. Guy had a massive ego about how good of a programmer he was which made this even more retarded.

>>8384056
Without giving too much away I used to work at a company that writes software for engineers.

Fuck it, i just made pic related with the piece of code that made me finally quit.