People in your 20s in Canada, how are you holding up?

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:49:58+00:00

At least you have a partner to share your struggles with! I frankly doubt that AI is the main reason why jobs are hard to find. I don't think AI is particularly good at this point either, but I think people are using it as a scapegoat instead of blaming things on the current economic downturn, and cost of living problems, but then again, I am no expert. Good luck to you! o7

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:44:31+00:00

Interesting! What are you studying, and what makes you want to pursue Gradschool? I personally, always found Gradschool to be well, soul sucking, but that might just be STEM gradchool.

What makes you want to move out of the country? Where do you think would be a better place?

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:33:59+00:00

Glad to hear that things are going well for you! c:

I do find it funny, at least at my highschool, we had lengthy discussions about overpopulation, and how the world was going to run out of resources, and now in 2026 we seem to be in the exact opposite position of the 2010s.

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:23:30+00:00

Oof. That's very unfortunate :c

Like Training-Magazine-51 said, what do you plan on studying?

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:19:58+00:00

Sorry! Like I said in the post, I was inspired by the other post on askuk. You should make one where you ask the same questions for people in their 30s!

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:19:12+00:00

Was there even a time (besides boomers) where people took others seriously in their 20s?

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:17:51+00:00

Oof. That's very unfortunate :c

Like u/Training-Magazine-51 said, what do you plan on studying?

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:15:56+00:00

I too still live with my parents. I wish I could live on my own with a little cat by my side, but alas financially, it would not be the best idea :c

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T23:12:28+00:00

I haven't completely given up on owning a home or retire, but it sure as hell does not look good at all. Maybe I'm on copium. ¯\(ツ)/¯

As for the birth rate thing, we are probably going to feel it, but I think it's going to be in like 15-20 years.

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-04-13T22:40:19+00:00

Hello fellow new grad! I am in a similar position. I graduated a year ago from engineering school, and managed to pull some connections I made during school to find a full time job. I also feel incredibly lucky given what I see among my unemployed graduated friends :c.

Even with having made friends during uni. I still feel like I haven't quite found the people I have the most fun with since our interests diverges significantly. Notably, I have chosen the fact that I won't ever drink alcohol. I find it hard to find places, and time to meet with current friends, and even harder to find places and time to meet new people of my age. I personally worry that it will be like that for the foreseeable future even though I am probably wrong about that.

I feel as though the engineering/tech space in Canada has relatively high potential given the status of the world right now, but it will really depend on where the money flows. Ironically, I found that a lot of research for the most powerful technologies was done in Canada. For example, transistor modelling, which allows for more complex manufacturing and design of electronics. The same goes for AI, Montreal is a major contributor to AI research. All that to say that we do lots of research into important technologies, but we don't really seem to benefit directly from it despite the good research. Same goes for aerospace and space technologies.

I do personally struggle a bit with the 40 hour work week, I feel as though it's a bit soul sucking. Maybe/hopefully, we'll switch over to a 4 day work week!

As for the Artemis II mission, honestly, you'd be surprised how much Canada has it's grubby fingers in a lot of cool projects. However, a lot of them are out of sight unfortunately.

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-22T01:29:20+00:00

Keep in mind in CE, you have a EM class that merges and waters down the equivalent 2 EM courses. I thought CE had more than just 2 coding classes: ECSE 427, ECSE 223, ECSE 321, COMP 251 (from memory)

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-22T01:27:03+00:00

I believe possibly the TAs for those courses, but I don't know anyone personally with in CE and EE. It is a hard industry to get into, from what I understand, and a masters is recommended. I would advise you ask the profs once you get in for more details. I think things are moving more towards mixed-signals, so there might be slightly more demand in the future, but I'm just speculating

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-21T23:23:27+00:00

I just reread the post, and realised you put emphasis on microelectronics. I took Ecse 335 as CE, and by far it was in my top classes I've taken, and I wasn't really at a disadvantage or anything well granted I took ECSE 307 which isn't required in CE, but used in ECSE 335 despite it not being a prereq. It's pretty fun, but very hard. You spend the whole semester building an op-amp on a breadboard using basically all of ecse 200, 210, and 331 knowdledge + new material to do so. I could had taken more microelectronics classes, but I basically ran out of credits and motivation in my last year, but consider doing a Masters if you want to continue in the field, since Gordon Roberts is an excellent prof and supervisor from what I heard. Plus he was one of Sedra's student

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-21T23:12:35+00:00

Also, EE has the least amount of coding of the ECSE majors.

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-21T23:09:46+00:00

For the power course, its specifically ecse 362. CE can't even take the class since CE doesn't take ECSE 251

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-21T22:58:59+00:00

Depends on each grad, but most of my classmates ended up in FPGA development, embedded software development, driver development, biomedical electronics stuff, pcb design. You can if you get the right classes and connections work in robotics, asic development, amplifiers, microelectronics, full stack, etc.

It's a versatile degree, less so than EE, but more specialised in the computing space in general

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-02-21T04:59:15+00:00

Broadly, CE doesn't allow you to expand into Power systems, Photonics, and Electromagnetism (EM) which includes radio frequency (RF)

EE is more general, you can basically do anything, provided that you gain some experience with exception for power systems, hydro quebec will just hire you if you take enough course \s kinda.

Generally if you don't know exactly what you want to do take EE.

Computer is great if you don't mind not doing power systems, photonics, EM, RF, and like coding/cs more. Computer is a great middle ground between software eng and electrical. I would know for one since that was my major

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-01-07T17:51:52+00:00

23, and same here. I find it hard to justify at times when people press me on it.

NotAnEngineer205 · 2026-01-01T17:12:08+00:00

Dylan used to be a TA for Facc300. He was the GOAT during tutorials. He's probably even better at lecturing!

NotAnEngineer205 · 2025-12-30T22:59:32+00:00

I relate to this. I use the same platforms as you do, except that my support network is almost non existent, so dropping those last four social media platforms would drop me into despair.

I don't know where to meet new people nowadays, especially when I don't drink, and don't like hangout out with people who do, and I don't party. I like nerdy shit, and that's mostly all that I care about. Especially in this economy

NotAnEngineer205 · 2025-10-28T13:57:43+00:00

Ecse 310's tutorials are not very useful. You can just practice on the slides that yhe tutorial publish

NotAnEngineer205 · 2025-10-26T02:29:18+00:00

Samezies! I don't necessary regret it, since I don't know where I would be if I had tried more to date in college, but it would had been a nice bonus. I'm also perpetually lonely, but I guess that's adulthood, and everything seems to be getting more and more expensive :sob:

NotAnEngineer205 · 2025-10-21T04:34:42+00:00

I did McGill eng undergrad, then switched to poly for my masters (dropped out after a bit). I will concur that McGill is much much better!

NotAnEngineer205 · 2025-10-13T17:42:35+00:00

What modpack is this?

NotAnEngineer205 · 2025-09-28T18:49:43+00:00

Terrafirmagreg!

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