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>be me, mech eng
>did an internship doing some design work in an office directly connected to the factory floor
>make friends with all the technicians and get opportunities to get my hands dirty
>very interesting varied work that gets your noggin joggin
>graduated and end up in a Project Engineer role in some big-ass consulting company
>all day is just sitting in big corporate meetings
>forced to listen to talks about health and safety or learning about pronouns
>all the work that I do is filling out contract forms or doing paperwork
>none of the shit I learned as an engineer is actually relevant
It pays well but what the fuck bros. I thought I was gonna be designing spaceships and shit.

>> No.15415938

>>15415932
What's with the ankle tape, why not just blouse your pants?

>> No.15415970

>>15415932
>Project Engineer role in some big-ass consulting agency
Well there's your problem. Look for actual ME jobs not in consulting.

>> No.15416726

>>15415970
The only ones available here are like that. There's no "real" engineering jobs

>> No.15416735

>>15416726
who's building all the planes and turbines then? someone must be working on the factory floor

>> No.15416947

>>15415932
Are you American by any chance?

>> No.15416977

You should have said that your pronoun is a rocket engineer.

>> No.15417106

>>15415932
Peter Principle

>> No.15417290
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15417290

Should I go Air Force or Navy after my mech degree is done? It really seems my options are limited and I’d like to become a flight officer.

>> No.15417585

>>15416977
Being a woman or other minority is like getting the speed pass that lets you skip the line in Disneyland. Fags don't get special treatment though

>> No.15417605

>>15415932
>big-ass consulting company
hive of bureaucratic drones

>> No.15417635

>>15415932
Mechanical engineering is a fucking meme. The actual 'engineering' is all done by computers, leaving retards like you doing trade work or management.

>> No.15417698

>>15416735
>someone must be working on the factory floor
if it's a cheap commodity, then it's Chang
if it's a moderately high-precision item, then it's a loose-knit network of contract machine shops owned by turbo boomers
if it's milspec unobtainium, like semiconductor stuff, then it's a handful of big companies that glow harder than an innocent civilian being targeted by gen 3+ night vision

>> No.15417846

>>15415932
For real though what's with the tape?

>> No.15417854

>>15417846
It's a racist dogwhistle

>> No.15418950

Not OP, but pic drew me in:

>be me, from poor family
>enlist in Air Force for travel and college
>get my A&P license through the FAA, work on engines for 6 years while enlisted
>gtfo with a bachelors in the arts, FAA license, GI Bill, and immediately start working at a job building turbofan engines for an airline making $38 an hour which will go up every 6 months
>tfw job is much easier than Air Force gig that entailed totally tearing down and building up, now I can focus just on LPT
>can still hop to any other section I want if bored
>cross-training in Reserves to CBRN instructor so I can play with chemicals and nerve agent on deployments if I want to

Play your cards right and don’t look down on the military my dudes. The first week on the job was rough. Our orientation lasted a week, it was all determining what emotional color we were and why that made us a bad person. In the middle of the video on how we responded to Covid, they mention George Floyd for 20 seconds, then get back to masks. Corporate spirit is very far removed from the actual maintenance side of things.

>tldr get your A&P and you’ll be able to do what’s shown in OP’s pic

>> No.15418956

>>15415938
Not ankle tape, its for vis tape

>> No.15418964

>>15417698
so it sounds like you are not interested in those positions. it sounds like you are working exactly where you feel comfortable. this is a dumb problem OP, why r you wasting our time with this garbage

>> No.15419016

>>15418964
Nah I get him. Sometimes you end up in a job that is great on paper and makes perfect sense for your career goals but then it becomes boring and full of unnecesary bullshit. You become much more interested in other jobs that don't pay as well but seem more "fun".
But that's just life and you have to suck it up.

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>>15415932
>>15418950
>turbofan manufacturer CEO decides costs need to be cut via layoffs
>hmmm, who can we get rid of without hurting sales and productivity, the people who build the product or the guys in the meeting discussing pronouns?

>pronoun discussers's weekend hobbies: video games and porno
>A&P mechanic's weekend hobbies: designing building and flying private aircraft

>> No.15419045

>>15415932
Why did you study engineering if you don't even know what it is?
Did you think you'd be building contraptions out in a field like the Wright brothers?
You're an engineer, you got a professional degree. Paperwork is what you do. As an engineer you're closer to a lawyer than a mechanic.

>> No.15419141

>>15415932
>end up in a Project Engineer role
Mistake #1: Not knowing your engineering titles. You're working a project engineer, not a design engineer or even as a mechanical engineer.

>> No.15419166

>>15417698
>if it's a moderately high-precision item, then it's a loose-knit network of contract machine shops owned by turbo boomers
Hey, that's where I work... It sucks.