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14631181 No.14631181 [Reply] [Original]

>finally get my engineering degree
>start searching the job market and send out applications for an engineering job
>not a single response, not even for an interview
>finally break down and apply for an office IT job that pays 50k a year
>fell for the STEM degree meme
T-thanks

>> No.14631190

sorry mate, america doesn't engineer any more.

>> No.14631214

>>14631181
Which degree bro?

>> No.14631218

>>14631214
EE, bachelors

>> No.14631235

>>14631181
Graduated into a bad economy, sucks, but not much can be done.

>> No.14631272

>>14631218
Did your program have accreditation too? If not, good luck.

I know plenty of EE and most of them are working for shitty pay for shitty manufacturers.

>> No.14631298

>>14631181
If it makes you feel better, you would've done worse without a STEM degree. You're a socially inept frogposter, your alternatives were welfare and flipping burgers.

>> No.14631304

>>14631218
bullshit, EE are hired for almost any industry and get paid well, worst case scenario you whore out and learn to code and you would be a god among all the CS brainlets. you are just autistic and unable to do the minimum amount of networking and have the soft skills of an anime protagonist

>> No.14631313

>>14631181
ok don't tell me retard you don't wanna move so you just sent out jobs to your little backwater nigger town, Newsflash buddy you gotta fucking move

>> No.14631343

>>14631181
Currently in my final year of getting my master of science in industrial engineering and management. I'm a little worried I won't be able to land a decent first job since I don't have a lot of connections or nepotism on my side.

>> No.14631359

>>14631304
>worst case scenario you whore out and learn to code and you would be a god among all the CS brainlets.
this anon is still in undergrad lmao

>> No.14631368

>>14631359
>no see, you actually need a PhD to get a good job!
the fuck is this dude

>> No.14631383

I was in the same situation OP. Physics Masters and couldn't get a single job for 6 months. I applied in whole Germany. 80% of them didn't even respond.
Then I was lucky and found a job as process engineer for Ultrasonic Welding. They apparently needed one very quickly.
But I hate this job and I'm too lazy to apply for anything else, plus I don't even know what I want to do as a job.

You just goptta get through it. Especially as a bachelors it's even harder. Having no work experience on hand makes everything so much worse. You just gotta rely on luck I guess. And once you're in a job for at least 2 years, it will be easier to get another job. Doesn't even matter in what field you spent those 2 years. It's the job experience alone. A degree on itself is worth nothing, if oyu haven't done anything special druing your degree.

>> No.14631409

>>14631218
> EE
kek, read this retard
https://lateblt.livejournal.com/325098.html

Nothing is being "Engineered" in Electrical sector, we already have all the functional designs, they get manufactured for cheap in East Asia, all the Quality assurance and Testing is done by them, after that implementation is done by Technicians.

As for the research, you will understand from that journal, it's obscure and done mostly by physicists.

>> No.14631418

>>14631190
This, except the fact that you will get employment (maintenance) in civil engineering and software development sector, but it's not like we are building new stuff, specially software development in US today is absolutely fake, gay and cringe, with the web3 bullshit it has literally become a get rich quick scam.

>> No.14631448

>>14631409
the dude literally does a 180 in the comments and says that the degree itself isn't a waste
its just that the field isn't growing any larger

>> No.14631482

>>14631448
He is coping, lmao, exactly like people who talk about muh experiences and shit, of course you will learn how to make stuff work fundamentally but that's it. It's basically knowledge consumption.

Engineering is about building stuff, applying method to solve problems, we already figured out circuits, grids, transformers, resistors etc. Engineers are required where things are getting developed.

>> No.14631759

>>14631482
There's plenty of manufacturers looking to build out production lines, being more efficient and or eliminating humans from those jobs. Some do it in house, others contract. Nearly every plant needs 5+ engineers and there's a lot of plants in the US. Travel abroad is nice too. You just have to find the best one you cam get into.

>> No.14631773

>>14631482
I work in an R&D engi business which works on transition into smart grid by improving circuits, grids, transformers ect.

>> No.14631816

>>14631773
> smart
This means computerisation or in a
more fancier term automation, this is done by software developers, There is a reason why good (stress on this) software developers are in huge demand - Intelligent people figured out that digital systems are a lot better when it comes to storing data and communication, compared to analog systems, they are more accurate, fast and almost resilient to degradation.

Do you know the first person who built a digital programmable computer was Civil Engineer? What I am trying to imply here is that the Engineering fields aren't some exclusively divided areas, they are continuation of same thing, from using stones for lighting fire to building an Integrated Circuit - is fundamental linear pathway.

After Electrical Engineering was over, people moved to Computer Engineering. It's that simple, this is how engineering works, it's just a series of method updates (Civil - Mechanical - Electrical - Computer) based on knowledge and requirements over the years.

>> No.14633301

>>14631218
Traditional EE is dead (except maybe for power engineering). You should've realized this earlier and transitioned into CS via choosing lectures from embedded systems, low level programming domain

>> No.14633309

>>14631218
You should have studied a useful degree like finance. You failed, now you're getting the poverty you deserve.

>> No.14633322

>>14631181
Engineers in russia paid worse than toiltet cleaners. In russia. Javascript monkey though, an elite of society.

>> No.14633347

>>14633322
No engineering happens in Russia lmao, they can't build shit.

>> No.14633416

>>14633347
Soon they will have to build everything themselves or their ngmi

>> No.14633431

>>14633416
Yeah that's true, but i think they will just import stuff from China, it's a lot easier than building a new Industry.

>> No.14635166

>>14631409
Construction industry has lots of EE because every building has unique design.

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>> No.14636146

>>14631304
STOP HURTING MY FRAGILE CS EGO