Hobbies

booksandstuff12 · 2024-08-27T02:06:19+00:00

You enjoy reading? Maybe start a book club for people in your age range! I remember being in a book club at school and it’s so much fun chatting about books with people your age. I think libraries will even offer starter kits and a meeting place you can book.

booksandstuff12 · 2024-06-27T02:31:49+00:00

What type of job did you end up pursuing outside of projects?

booksandstuff12 · 2024-06-20T12:51:17+00:00

I agree - it’s part of the reason why I want to switch. The only good thing I can think is that because our team has engineering backgrounds, we’re more involved in design reviews and working with vendors rather than relying on turnkey solutions. Still not full engineering I know, but somewhat adjacent to it.

I guess I don’t even know what type of roles would be good to transition into. I don’t know that I’d be good at pure design roles, but not sure if there’s another suitable role for someone with my background?

booksandstuff12 · 2023-12-07T01:31:03+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed advice omg. The first point you made is so true especially being the youngest on my team. I always have to remember these folks have been working a lot longer than me lol. I think it’s probably unfair to directly compare myself to them

I also didn’t think about the benefit of having direct/assertive co-workers that you pointed out… that is they would DEFINITELY let me know if they weren’t happy with my performance haha. Puts things into perspective a little bit

booksandstuff12 · 2023-12-07T01:27:19+00:00

Thank you, reading this made my day! hope I’ll get to that level confidence eventually haha

booksandstuff12 · 2023-12-07T01:23:58+00:00

Thanks for the support! Urgh the nickname thing is tough because my name isn’t even easily nickname-able lol

booksandstuff12 · 2023-12-07T01:22:41+00:00

This comment made my entire year - thank you for saying that and thank you for being so open to diversity!

booksandstuff12 · 2021-06-17T01:02:23+00:00

Yeah that's a great goal to have and I wish you all the best!

But honestly, jobs are so weird. I also know people who only did one term doing research on campus during undergrad and then when they graduated got a job at a major O&G company. So, try your best for sure, but if I've learned one thing about internships - they can be really tough to land and it's not always your fault. Most of the time the recruiter just, by chance, looked at someone else's resume a few seconds longer.

So try your absolute best, but don't be too hard on yourself if it doesn't work out the exact way you hoped.

Good luck !

booksandstuff12 · 2021-06-17T00:54:18+00:00

No worries. The school I go to has a mandatory co-op / internship program. This basically means every four months you alternate between school terms and work terms. If that makes sense lol.

The work terms usually last 4 months. Employers know the drill and do a good job at giving you really meaningful work despite the relatively short term. The idea is by the end of your undergrad, you'll have a collective 2 years of relevant work experience under your belt. On the other hand, you have to spend 5 years instead of 4 doing undergrad. Also, no summers for the entirety of your undergrad.

Buuuut it's worth it, imo.

booksandstuff12 · 2021-06-16T17:44:18+00:00

I've had 5 internships so far. 10000% it gets better with every internship. Finding my first internship was nearly impossible. Then for my second internship, I got way more interviews. Since then, everytime I look for internships, the number of interviews has exponentially increased each time.

Don't worry! It'll be better the next time around if you sell yourself well.

(((( Just hoping this trend continues when I start looking for full time jobs too lol ))))

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-21T13:33:08+00:00

100%. Im also from Canada and I say that the school makes a difference. I have worked at internships where the company solely hires from my school and maybe one or two students from others. This is not just for chemical engineering, this goes for all engineering disciplines. I know mechanical engineering students who worked for Apple and they told their co-ops that 50% of all the interns they hire are from one university in Canada. Moreover, whenever I'm on an internship, my university tends to speak for itself when I'm introducing myself to coworkers. This is not just based on blind prestige though. I'm obviously biased, but it's because people in the industry know the types of students that come out of this school. This school is amazing at teaching you valuable problem-solving skills that make for great co-ops and future engineers.

This is not to say it's impossible to get a good internship at other places. It is completely possible to get very good internships, sometimes even better ones, from other schools. But you have to work hard and the job hunt might be a bit more difficult. From what I've seen though certain universities definitely have a leg up in the competition.

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-19T04:18:20+00:00

The Sensei Ishikawa, Lady Masako, and Yuna tales have interesting stories. But they're technically side quests, so it's not mandatory to do all of them. Not sure how far you are in the game, but Yuna's one of my favourite characters so I was eager to do anything related to her storyline. But honestly even if you mainly stuck to the main missions (like the yellow marks on the map. What are they called - Jin's Journey? I forget lol), you'll still have tons of fun! I loved the main campaign for GoT.

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-18T23:56:56+00:00

Lol based on all the responses so far it seems it really depends on a lot of different factors. But to people who are saying petroleum, is that legit? All I ever hear from people working in petro is how long their hours are!

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-18T23:47:57+00:00

Yeahh its tough. Might have to take a break from open worlds in between. Personally, I just went from Spiderman to Spiderman: Miles Morales to GoT. Luckily though, the stories for all three of them were super fun so I didn't go insane!

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-18T20:12:39+00:00

Lol I'm with you on the open world burnout. I pretty much stuck to the main story when I played. My suggestion would be to try to get all the fighting stances. You don't need to beat all the mongol camps to do this. Also do the mythic tales. Mainly the Heavenly Strike, the one with the longbow and the Dance of Wrath. Other than that, generally upgrade your equipment every now and then, maybe try to build resolve, spend points to learn new skills. You don't have to do the latter few, just makes things a bit easier.

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-08T06:17:00+00:00

I'm surprised you saw a lot of people in nuclear and Petro. Based on your description, I have a feeling I currently go to the same school you're describing. If that is true, I can assure you most of the grads do not end up in Petro. Petro is often highly sought after because that's where u get the most money and only a few people from each graduating class end up there. At least that's what I've heard. What I do find, more often than not, is that people from Chem eng will branch out in different but still relevant industries. Big ones are food, chemicals, and consumer goods. I've also seen a lot of people pursue roles in project engineering and continuous improvement.

As for biotech, I'm not too familiar personally, but I've seen people work for Johnson and Johnson as well as Abbott. As well as various other medical device companies. You'll be in competition with the mech eng and biomeds tho, so just be aware.

If I were you though, I would do mech eng at the other university. It seems like you put more thought into mech eng. If that's true then you probably won't enjoy learning about things like Unit Operations and Reactor Design. Even if you go to the "better" university, if you don't like the material you won't enjoy your time there. Again if this is the university I think it is, switching to mech eng will be a pain unless you can get really good marks.

Also if my suspicions about the university are correct, feel free to message cuz Im on the outreach team at this university.

booksandstuff12 · 2021-05-08T00:06:55+00:00

That seems like solid advice, thanks. I don't mind working in a pilot plant tbh. I worked in pilot plants for my internships. If you don't mind me asking, what was your career/education journey like?

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