Could any working Electrical Engineers answer these following questions?

1) What do you do at your job?

2) How did you get involved in your particular field of work/electrical engineering?

3) What advice would you give to an aspiring electrical engineer for in college and after college?

Most schools offer a curriculum that touches on many areas of studies. You get a little of this and a little of that. Most graduate schools requires that you touch on several areas of studies but you do get to take the majority of classes in your area of interest. Area of interest is the key for what type of work you start out in. In the end though you never really know what you end up doing as your interest may change as you progress through your working years.

Why do you ask?

3) Take the $100K or so you were going to spend on college and invest it. Then get a job such as a unionized plumber or a power plant operator. You will earn a good living, be more secure in your employment, and be better prepared for retirement.

And you will exchange of working life of creativity for one of mundane sameness. It's not all about the money.

Sounds like you're seeking a multidisciplinary compendium of day-in-the-life engineering experiences prefaced by a genesis-of-career for each case, to assist you in selecting a discipline for yourself -- am I right?

Precisely. Can you help me with that?

Well done David

Its about having a creative mind and being inquisitive, wanting to know how things work, wanting to design and build something that works Not just accepting things as they are and wanting to learn

Money does help, Although being paid on time wouldnt go amis, no one can invest without it but its more about the individuality of a person


Im so pleased someone has written this comment

Mark Harrington

I wished I had the opportunity back then, but then again as a youngster I didn't have a hundred grand.
Sad to think that nowadays you need at least a hundred grand to get a degree. I got off easy - was only 5 grand in debt by the time I got done with grad school. Turns out most of that money bought - car, motor cycle and washer/dryer. Was married that is why I needed the washer/dryer - lol.

Best advice I can give - go work for a year - flip burgers or some other low paying job. so when it is time to go to college you will know why you are there.

What ever you do you should enjoy your work as David says but it does not always happen. Took me 35 years to find a job I really liked.

Well...I typed up a really long piece about life for me as a self-employed engineer, but when I submitted it, it got dumped. Session time out? Other edits that occurred while I was composing it? Don't know, but it's gone and I just don't have the time or incentive to reproduce it.

When will I ever learn to not type these things on the EEWeb site (but, instead, do it in a separate editor and then copy/paste!!?! Grrrrr!!!)

Thanks for trying at least haha. If you want, write a shorter version and I would be extremely grateful!

If aministration is watching -- how about some sort of caching system for this textbox to save idiots like me, hmmmmmm? It could be a database that gets periodically ajax-updated (best solution), or mirror the content in a cookie, or on submit, blast the content into a cookie, or ajax it to a database, or put it into a session variable.

If you use a database, then the content could be written into a table dedicated to saving "drafts". Timestamp the draft and use a cron to clean out old drafts after, say 30 days. The draft would be keyed to the username and the Forum post (and perhaps even to the position in the thread). If you're nervous about doing deletes in the database that serves this forum, then create a separate database dedicated to temporary data.

Thanks for the feedback Steve. We do have a drafts for blog and project posts but not for the forum comments.

We'll add this to our list of new features for the forum. Sorry for your loss of data.

I like that answer too Similar to my own life Pubs, nightclubs pulling nails out of floors, making cups of tea for factories,working for macdonalds and trapesing up and down the streets practically begging for at least one company to take me on so I could start a carreer in electronics How I remember those days and the struggle

Not alot has changed since then only now its even harder and im back to ground zero all ovet again Brilliant isnt it ! !

I know only too these days its throw away or so they keep telling us The remote controls, and car radios are blobs of muck on pcbs embedded into the board The rubbish dumps are inendated with electronic junk You dont service hoovers anymore, toasters, kettles, irons even wasbing machines or replace or service automatic gate printed circuit bourds or automac doors

Instead you spend £ 500 to £5000 replacing the whole unit when under most cicumstances these control bourds can be serviced to component level for some £200 or there abouts but hey Its all in the interests of preserving the so called green enviroment you know

Quite how they work this out Ill never know must have more money than sence and of course we are also told its more economical And finally we have the fitter who apparently knows more than the enginneer and management who cant even put a simple database together let alone a spread sheet or a webpage now telling us we are useless, your a nothing but in the meantime has to call you at 3am in the morning becuase it cant quite fix or solve the problem on the electronic dash or repair its ex wives dental uv exposure unit or provide a solution and expects to pay nothhing or keep you waiting 3months for £50.00 whilst he / she earns in tbe region of some £30 000 plus each with a very nice house etc and two or three cars and sits and throws nothing but backchat at you tries to run you out onto the streets and causes no end of trouble for many other people as well

Yes all good this

Can you work this out

No niether can I

Incredrible

Respected sir
i think a technical student be able to understand about the sequence of proceses going on in functioning of a device right from the fundamental level that will be a key to implement it electrically.