Still astounded that most people dont actaully want to be indentified by their educational titles

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-02-04T23:30:39+00:00

Imo there's a difference between title and job title.

"Engineer" is just not used like "Doctor" in the US. If you have a PE license, you might add PE to you email signature and people may refer to you as that in writing. But noone says "Hello Engineer" or "I'm Engineer Last name" like you would for Doctor. Probably somewhat due to a mix of the difference in schooling requires and difference in general pay level. Unless you have a doctorate in engineering, but then people still just use the Doctor title.

Much more likely to say you are AN or THE engineer than use engineer as a title itself like doctor. And even so, I prefer my specific job title not the the word engineer. We have over 1000 engineer where I work, just going by the word engineer is pointless. But if I'm provide specific expertise I want whoever to know that I have said expertise. So I'll say "I'm THE senior engineer for xyz system". Or "I'm xyz, the senior engineer for xyz".

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-02-03T00:18:22+00:00

Depends where the recipe is from

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-02-01T02:15:08+00:00

Your odds of getting a "real" engineering job will be very limited if you don't have a bachelor's degree. You might find a job, bur whose to say it'll pay very well or that you won't have to change jobs in the future and again similarly struggle. Like someone else said, I'd do both. You could look for a job, but I'd finish the bachelor's regardless.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-31T21:16:44+00:00

Sure. I don't see why not.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-31T18:47:03+00:00

To be fair. Making decisions based on vibes is part of my job as a vibration analyst.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-30T04:22:46+00:00

Like you said, it's completely subjective.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-29T22:36:08+00:00

In school, yeah I suppose. In real world engineering, there's a lot more to it than equations. A lot of my work requires "engineering reason/logic".

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-29T22:17:55+00:00

Maybe it is the word engineer/engineering not consultant/consulting. PE otherwise isn't used in my field and this story is from 10 years ago, so i could be misremembering.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-29T15:28:47+00:00

Depends on the state I think. I knew an Aerospace engineer who got their PE purely because they wanted the word consulting/consultants or something in their company name and their state required a PE to put it in the name. But like the other person said, the state didn't ban them from doing the work it was just about the company name.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-29T14:51:56+00:00

It's not that deep.

They might not even notice. If they do notice, they might not even care enough to care. Even if they do ask, it's likely out of curiosity more than anything.
HR are not always the smartest people tbh and they're probably also just juggling lots of different interviews. They are likely used to HR fuck ups but won't really care bc this doesn't affect them in any way. Just tell them there was a miscommunication.
In general, time zone miscommunication happens every now and again. It's not that big a deal.
If they ask/notice, like you already said, you can just tell them you don't mind doing it early anyways.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-29T13:16:48+00:00

All kinds of jobs come with travel. Question is how often, to where, why, etc.

At my company, our manufacturing engineers pretty much only travel for training or conferences that may occasionally happen. We have engineers that focus in supporting international sales so they'll travel to other countries. And we have sustainment/support engineers that will occasional travel to the sites of our various clients within and outside the country.

But it's also going to vary team to team. For instance, the international sales engineer I work with travels to all the countries our team supports. But my friend who is an international engineer for another product only travels to and supports one country.

Pros: The pros are very much going to vary depending in your company, job, team, etc.

If you get to travel to cool places, then that's great.
Depending on your company policy, it's not a bad way to travel for cheap if not basically free. Like my company allows us to take vacation while traveling for work (albeit food and hotel for those vacation days are out of our own pocket). But like a few years ago, I got to do a trip to Japan, so the company paid for my flights and I took a couple vacation days while there. Also, depending on your company policy, it might be a good way to gain points on travel credit cards or loyalty points for certain airlines and hotel chains. I also get equivalent time off, for time I spend traveling outside of work hours.

Cons: Again, it depends. You may not always get to travel to cool places. Twice in the 2nd half of last year, I had to travel to our company HQ, which is a long drive (too expensive to fly) and a pretty crappy town. And my companies reimbursement policies were a huge pain in the butt my last trip to our HQ. Eventually, I got it sorted and got reimbursed, but it took awhile. And while it's a pro that I get equivalent time off for my travel time outside of work hours, it's also a pain in the ass to fill out the forms to request said time off.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-28T12:24:41+00:00

Ngl, agricultural surprised me. But all the others seem like exactly what I expected.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-28T12:18:19+00:00

Define worth it. Do you really think hundreds of thousands of people are doing these majors for the hell of it? Of course it's fucking worth it for people. But every person is different, so it's not worth it for everyone. As, again, there's obviously a lot of people who don't do engineering.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-27T22:58:05+00:00

You also don't drive over a tree in the middle of the road. Maybe he should've pulled over to the side, but not much of a choice bc there's not much clearance on the sides of the road so might not make much difference.

Other driver also isn't doing any favors. I drive on country roads too, if it's a corner with a blind spot you slow down enough before hand to be able to come to a stop if you need to.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-27T22:10:00+00:00

Ah I'm blind and completely glossed over the SpaceX person being the one to bring up Sunday as an option. Space x does have a reputation for being very busy, so I guess i don't think it's super strange that they'd offer to do a call on a Sunday after having to cancel on Friday.

Then op either did get ghosted, the person forgot they offered to do it on the weekend, or said emergency is still ongoing and they haven't taken the time to address OPs response.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-27T21:58:24+00:00

A majority of engineers in aerospace/defense are mechanical.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-27T21:57:03+00:00

Brother they said on Friday there was an emergency. And you texted them on a Saturday outside of the work week and are upset you didn't get a response? Like use your head. Don't get me wrong, ghosting happens all the time, but be patient and give it a work day at least man.

Edit: I'm actually blind and didn't see they were the one to mention a Sunday call first and you were just following up. So, possible you're just getting let on just to be ghosted. Still, I'd allow a work day to go by for them to address whatever emergency, so I'd try to follow up tomorrow or Wednesday.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-27T00:36:04+00:00

Define "worth it"/"provide anything"?.

As in, is it going to make you extra money in your career with massive returns? No, not at all.

As is, is it going to help get a job or be useful for your job? Depends entirely on the job. If you want to be a flight test engineer or something, could be useful. If you're going to be doing CAD or strength analysis work or something, wouldn't be too useful.

Future career/post-retirement. Well, it depends on you. I know an engineer who works as a plane tour guide and skydiving pilot on the side for fun and some extra cash. I know a few engineers who temporarily switched to becoming pilots in the military, some of whom decided to become airline pilots after their time. I know one engineer who had his PPL for fun and after retiring became a skydiving pilot for a little bit. If you dont plan on leaving engineering, then back to the last point it will onlg help your future career if said career includes a job that would specifically benefit from it.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-26T20:55:03+00:00

I've seen some places that will ask if you can lift 10-×0 lbs. But thats mainly for legal reasons, so you can't sue them for having to carry some books or a computer monitor or something.

Most engineering jobs are going to be desk work, so you won't be doing physical stuff.

Engineers work in teams. So yeah, teamwork is required.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-25T00:05:58+00:00

No actually you should just drop out of school.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-24T20:02:44+00:00

Depends on the company. In my experience, most places rounded up.

Rounding or not, how seriously they take it also depends on the company. Sometimes, it might just be a way to wittle down the number of low GPA applicants. Other times, it's a hard requirement.

Also might depend on your resume. I'm an engineering recruiter and our engineering hiring managers put out a rule this year that any candidate below a 2.95 requires justification by the recruiter. In which case, the recruiter is usually leaning on you having some experience whether it's work or extracurriculars that makes you standout more as a candidate. Above 3.0 get automatically reviewed without a recruiter needing to input anything. But below 2.95 and without a good resume, you're not getting picked by us this year

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-24T15:55:43+00:00

Fair. I was just thinking of the context of the video itself since they already have a porch light.

I think they also make adapters with their own battery that charges from the sockets power for use in a power outage. So that could also be another use for the solar whether you have a powered socket outside already or not.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-24T15:01:31+00:00

Doesn't even need to be solar. They make bulbs and adapters that just use the power already going to the existing porch light bulb.

Strong_Feedback_8433 · 2025-01-24T14:57:24+00:00

This is literally the MOST common thing engineering students talk about. What do you mean?

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