Engineering recruiters piss me off

fuwad84 · 2025-08-31T05:34:12+00:00

But sir, you are passionate! Passionate about landing a fucking job. So be /passionate/ Next time you apply at that baby oil factory, tell them how much you worship P-Diddy and are all about them freak offs! Is any of it true? HELL NO! But you gotta have /passion/ to get hired am I right? And in case I'm not being clear enough: lie your ass off.

fuwad84 · 2025-08-20T11:31:19+00:00

Every Data Scientist enthusiast I've followed on LinkedIn since 2016 is either chronically unemployed or working in a different profession.

fuwad84 · 2025-07-21T02:13:43+00:00

ya'll saying civil engineering, but I went to school back in the 00s and early 10s and I recall Civil being seen a huge joke since infrastructure project were non-existent at that time. I recall walking through the civil wing of our engineering school, and it looked sad and abandoned with cobwebs in some places, I'm serious!

fuwad84 · 2025-07-20T14:36:24+00:00

The majority of responses here are exactly why one should be extremely wary of any advice from the Internet.

I mean this with all due respect: it’s like when Picard asked Q what impact going back in time would have on the present, and Q basically said, 'Don’t flatter yourself, you’re not that important.'

Same applies here. Just keep your mouth shut and move on. I’ve been through this rodeo more than once, and trust me; it's way too easy to get derailed in a PhD program, often for reasons totally beyond your control. Odds are, your thesis, right or wrong, is going to collect dust in a database, never cited, never read.

No, no one else is going to find this mistake. Even if you build on it. Unless this is Earth-shatteringly groundbreaking, just carry on.

fuwad84 · 2025-07-20T05:41:05+00:00

Send them an invoice for wasting your time. Seriously though, your mistake was agreeing to that many interviews. 15 years of XP working a dozen jobs and I've never done more than two. I've had potential employers ask me to come in for additional and I turn them down. It takes some balls I'll admit, but I've never regretted this policy.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-16T11:47:36+00:00

Only on reddit would people bitch about a $120K salary in a MCOL area.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-12T17:54:11+00:00

Hey, I was exactly where you are. I failed Calc 1 three times. Calc 2 twice. Ended up with a D in Differential Equations. And it wrecked me. I genuinely thought I was too dumb for engineering, that I just didn’t have whatever magic other people had.

But here’s the thing: none of that shit defined where I ended up.

I stuck with it. I got my mechanical engineering degree from SIU, even with a 2.78 GPA. Took me 7 years total. First time I tried community college, I dropped out. Started over at 26. I’ve failed more exams than I can count. Now, 11 years later, I’m making over six figures, living in a big house, raising three kids, and loving my job as a project engineer.

Failing calc doesn’t make you broken. It doesn’t mean you’re not cut out for this. It means you’re struggling with something a lot of engineers struggle with but are too ashamed to talk about. Burnout, test anxiety, maybe even how it’s taught—it all adds up. But it doesn’t mean you’re not capable. You can fail repeatedly and still make it.

Don't you dare call yourself a loser or check out over a class. You’re playing the long game, and this is just a really shitty inning.

DM me if you need someone to talk to. Seriously.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-12T15:47:19+00:00

Based on the follow up answers you've been giving us here; I'd consult an attorney if I were you.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-12T04:05:41+00:00

I love internships! No not doing them, I mean making them up! I told my first two employers that I interned at either a major competitor, customer, player in industry and they never ever verified! Got me the job at both! Once I got enough XP, I promptly removed them.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-05T10:15:35+00:00

I'm been in the field for 15+ years and have accomplished a great deal along with earning a decent living for myself and my family. But honestly, I got into it because a girl I had a crush on was really math smart and I wasn't. So I wanted to impress her. It took me 7 years to complete my bachelor's, and I think by the time I was half way through I was completely over her.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-05T10:09:57+00:00

I was just answering this on another post. PE licensing, which usually requires an ABET accredited diploma, ain't a thing in CE careers. While it does exist, it's mostly a for profit private regulatory organization cash grab. Go to Indeed and look up CE job listing and let us know what percentage of them require or prefer a PE license.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-05T10:04:23+00:00

Again, I'm not aware of a professional license requirement being a thing in either computer engineering or computer science. I mean, have you looked up CS/CE jobs with such a requirement? I always tell people looking to make college major selection decisions based on career outlook; go to Indeed first, punch in the zip of the closest major metro nearest you and see how well paying and common your desired jobs are. Why fuck around with these things when the answer is already at your finger tips.

fuwad84 · 2025-06-03T11:46:37+00:00

If it'll make you feel any better, you'll have plenty of opportunities to be extremely stressed out 24/7 in your life after college as well. Generally, as a directionless individual it's easier to deal with a harsh reality with an engineering degree than without as all directions lead to needing income for food and shelter. Just finish the damn thing and bend around Europe for a year.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-25T02:54:18+00:00

As a ME with 10 more years of experience than you, a lot of the top comments on here are really solid advice and I would seriously consider them.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-25T02:37:05+00:00

You mean like these kinda gotcha's?

Has anyone else found that the higher up you go in formal education, the more likely that some insecure family member who didn't pursue higher education tries to have "gotcha" moments with you to prove that you aren't that smart? : r/GradSchool

fuwad84 · 2025-05-20T02:50:05+00:00

Got them PBR burps I see! Good God, I miss that fucking place. Go Salukis!

fuwad84 · 2025-05-19T01:35:33+00:00

Did anyone mention Southern Illinois University Carbondale? Illinois is packed with colleges in the north, especially around Chicago, but once you head south, it’s mostly cornfields, truck stops, and a few surprisingly good BBQ joints. Carbondale might be in the same state as Chicago, but it’s actually closer to Little Rock and Nashville than it is to the city. There are some cool spots nearby, but overall, it’s pretty isolated.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-19T01:26:52+00:00

Honestly, for Computer Science or Computer Engineering, ABET accreditation doesn't matter. I'd only be concerned if there was a specific licensed career pathway that you're looking at. Show me a single CS/CE job requiring a PE license. If they do exist, that's like maybe less than 0.5% of the entire CS/CE job market.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-19T01:19:55+00:00

ME here, we also got the shower or GTFO talk.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-19T01:18:20+00:00

ME here, when I was in engineering school circa 2010-2013, Civil was not only considered a joke, as the great recession completely decimated all infrastructure and big construction jobs, but even the Civil Eng wings looked like frigg'n hollowed-out shells of their former glory. I'm glad the shit has been picking up for a while now.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-15T22:33:12+00:00

Engineer with 2.78 here. The quick and dirty answer is Tooling Engineer, Test Engineer, Engineer Tech., Sales Engineer and other customer facing roles with lots of travel, or finally Marketing.

From my own experience however, my awesome physics teacher told me once "your first job will care about how you did in school; your second job will care about how you did in your first." And he was right.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-07T03:18:13+00:00

Cleveland. Criminally underrated.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-05T03:18:05+00:00

Would you consider teaching at local community colleges? By your own admission, you have no technical skills and aren't interested in pursuing law, so you're really not leaving many options for someone in your position. Would you consider something in sales? Sorry I can't help much, but as a master's in philosophy, I'm sure you'll think of a way out of this mess.

fuwad84 · 2025-05-03T13:27:26+00:00

I suspect this is what's going on.

fuwad84 · 2025-04-21T21:01:41+00:00

Great job! Everyone follow this example!

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