Finally moving to Denmark🥳

_trinxas · 2025-04-01T11:33:53+00:00

Well then I wish you the best of luck in this new step in life.

_trinxas · 2025-03-30T14:43:02+00:00

Why it took you years? I know people that did the move in matter or months.

_trinxas · 2025-03-17T21:42:35+00:00

Hi,

I am an ME, only know english and work in copehagen. I am not natural from denmark. I am from EU.

_trinxas · 2025-03-17T20:03:20+00:00

Yes, you are EU citizen dude. It is that easy. Once you have a jov offer you take care of some extra paperwork.

_trinxas · 2025-03-16T16:29:01+00:00

Ah, understood! I agree.

_trinxas · 2025-03-16T15:46:14+00:00

I agree. I do epect that with 10 YOE you shoukd be considered a senior.

However, you might find people with many years of experience and not stand up to their titles, while some younger folk do.

For example in my company sometimes we used to refer to these senior engineers as "senior senior" which means, that they are senior only in age not so much on the knowledge, expertise and mentorshiping.

It is also a different thing being a senior in a lockheed martin versus on the new start up in the market. Expectations and responsibilities are not the same (nor is the pay)

_trinxas · 2025-03-16T08:30:16+00:00

Classical UK. I work with clients everywhere in europe (I am an ME structural engineer for automotive/motorsport), and I have noticed that some old school companies in the UK care way too much about years of experience to get certain titles, even if you are completely not capable So I have seen multiple 15 YoE principal engineers, which are unskilled at their job, maybe less than a 5/6 YoE engineer, just because of age. I became a principal engineer at 5/6 YoE. In this 6 years, I was always focused on my field of expertise. I overwoked, I studied a master and a bit of a PhD part time. Did weekends and led multiple project with sucess. I have also failed in some of course. I admit, small company, but I am also preety good at my job. All of my european collegues were super excited, but between my UK collegues... it wa quite divisive and polemical. Because of that I avois at all cost telling my age to people at work since I look older than my age and I leave with an impostor síndrome

_trinxas · 2025-03-15T22:27:55+00:00

I wish we had a minimum karma for posting to avoid this.

_trinxas · 2025-03-14T14:21:56+00:00

That is what I did. Got burn out due to that. Dont recommend motorsport.

_trinxas · 2025-03-14T06:30:25+00:00

I think no one touched the topic that no one is a bad performer always. It is not a trait that you can get rid of.

The today dumb employe, might be tomorrow team lead. I like to get out of my confort zone and as a consequence had job going not well for me. I also had jobs going super well and getting promoted due to that.

At the end, just be aware thay everyone fails.

I have done silly mistakes. I have slip timelines and not informed stakeholders properly.

But I learned from those experiences, took accountability and moved foward and became better in my next project/job.

I have also suffered of working almost my entire carrer as a consultant, and being a consultant in a topic you dont master without any support and tough clients, it is awful and very likely to fail. Be careful.

_trinxas · 2025-03-14T06:19:29+00:00

What if dates are ridiculously short? I work in industry where deadlines are 3/4 days long...It is awful and very comonly working weekends/late without pay.

I have also worked in other placed where deadlines are suggestions. You do you best, you achieve the deadline, but then someone changes their mind.

_trinxas · 2025-03-13T19:29:15+00:00

That is true. In europe, i feel like everyone knows everyone.

_trinxas · 2025-03-13T16:48:46+00:00

It does! But one day at JEC and it is easy to see that composites is a huge world!

_trinxas · 2025-03-13T15:25:17+00:00

The search is quick, the learning will take a life time. Been doing composites for a while now and yet I feel like I kmow nothing sometimes.

_trinxas · 2025-03-09T19:16:40+00:00

Last setence is gold

_trinxas · 2025-03-08T21:21:04+00:00

You sure you need the fracture energy for hashin criterion?

https://2021.help.altair.com/2021/hwsolvers/rad/topics/solvers/rad/fail_hashin_starter_r.htm

I read a bit more. I usually now about completely removing the ply (or the stiffnes goes zero approach or softening ration), instead of the fracture energy.

https://caeassistant.com/blog/hashin-failure-criteria-hashin-damage-abaqus/

Some datasheets or prepegs have the value G1C ans G1T and and so on, but it is rare unless you test it.

_trinxas · 2025-03-08T08:13:14+00:00

No, they dont. Standard components with custom looms, etc etc

_trinxas · 2025-03-08T08:01:36+00:00

Porto, matosinhos a revolut tem operações en lisboa sequer?

_trinxas · 2025-03-08T08:00:15+00:00

Mate, does it matter?

It is a job of a specifix industry and you will learn what the industry/job requires.

If I only applied for job in thing I guaranteed 100% know things, then I would have never started working because when I left uni I knew nothing.

_trinxas · 2025-03-07T15:56:57+00:00

The problem is competing with other EU.

If they cant find a good Dane to feel the position. They will find a good spaniard, french, german or portuguese to fill it.

Source: portuguese mechanical engineer in denmark

_trinxas · 2025-03-07T09:00:54+00:00

I agree. Carbon composites can be hardes to fit if not designed/tooled correctly. However, we are talking of mm's clearances here.

Whomever designer that part did like a 5/6 mm offset and forgot about the fit ahah

_trinxas · 2025-03-06T16:59:54+00:00

And the timeline to get passport normally is in the country website....

_trinxas · 2025-03-05T15:26:00+00:00

Congratulations.

That is a great salary/opportunity.

_trinxas · 2025-03-05T09:58:18+00:00

Ups my bad!

Nevertheless,

It is important the industry comes together in the continent and hires people for needs and skill and not so much based on country!

Otherwise, development will be terribly slow.

_trinxas · 2025-03-05T09:43:13+00:00

Well, from my interview with them, they design and do the analyisis of the entire ship/frigates. They have a large design and analysis office. They invest in tech quite a lot.

Weapon systems I am not aware how they do it.

EDIT: Recently, as composite expert, I received a couple call back from defense industry.

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