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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 756327" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Arrow,</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px">First off let me say that a stint in the military will help you very much in the real world. I spent 3 years in the Navy back in the early 70s and that experience helped me figure out what to do for a career. I was in the Naval Air Force in a squadron that trained pilots to fly attack bombers. One day I noticed some of the guys working on the electronic stuff on the aircraft. I started asking questions, got a book or two on electronics and I was hooked. When I got out, I got a degree in electrical engineering and had a blast for the next 30 years designing electronic gizmos for the aerospace industry. My gizmos got used on rockets, space vehicles, satellites, jet aircraft, ICBMs, and lots of other stuff.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px">I didn't know that nobody was hiring engineers when I started school to get my degree and I probably wouldn't have cared if I did know as I loved doing this work (to me it was a hobby that I got paid to do). By the time I did graduate, there was a shortage of engineers and I could write my own ticket which of course I did.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 15px">The bottom line. Figure out what you are good at and like to do (take a test if you have to) and find a way to get paid to do it. Don't spend you life doing something you don't love or your career will turn out to be a job. Good luck.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 756327, member: 63138"] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4]Arrow,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4]First off let me say that a stint in the military will help you very much in the real world. I spent 3 years in the Navy back in the early 70s and that experience helped me figure out what to do for a career. I was in the Naval Air Force in a squadron that trained pilots to fly attack bombers. One day I noticed some of the guys working on the electronic stuff on the aircraft. I started asking questions, got a book or two on electronics and I was hooked. When I got out, I got a degree in electrical engineering and had a blast for the next 30 years designing electronic gizmos for the aerospace industry. My gizmos got used on rockets, space vehicles, satellites, jet aircraft, ICBMs, and lots of other stuff.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4]I didn’t know that nobody was hiring engineers when I started school to get my degree and I probably wouldn’t have cared if I did know as I loved doing this work (to me it was a hobby that I got paid to do). By the time I did graduate, there was a shortage of engineers and I could write my own ticket which of course I did.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4]The bottom line. Figure out what you are good at and like to do (take a test if you have to) and find a way to get paid to do it. Don’t spend you life doing something you don’t love or your career will turn out to be a job. Good luck.:)[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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