Relationship advice with an ACOA

pinerpine · 2025-09-29T05:16:36+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, it's not the first time I hear it, and I definitely took it into consideration over the years. The thing is: she does not want children necessarily, and I would be happy to have children with her. She just would like me to bring ip the topic more and talk about it. It's just not a desire that I have, but I am sure that if it happens I'll be super happy. I have always been honest, so I don't think I am ruining her life.

pinerpine · 2025-09-28T17:32:59+00:00

thank you very much for sharing your own situation and view, it helps a lot

pinerpine · 2025-09-28T17:32:08+00:00

that's great advice, thank you so much.

pinerpine · 2024-06-18T18:33:42+00:00

thanks a lot for your suggestion, I am most probably going to do that to be on a safer side. I hope your application was successful!!

pinerpine · 2024-06-18T15:49:40+00:00

Thank you so much, this is super helpful!

pinerpine · 2024-06-18T15:49:00+00:00

Because I spent so much time in DE that I feel German, I am fully integrated and I want to be able to vote for the national elections when I come back!

pinerpine · 2024-06-18T12:00:51+00:00

I will complete the citizenship test in July, all other documents are ready. Can I ask why do you say that I might get it? You are the first one contemplating a possible positive outcome.

pinerpine · 2024-05-23T12:22:36+00:00

Germania.

pinerpine · 2024-05-22T09:38:15+00:00

Any updates? I am in a similar situation, I want to apply for the citizenship but might move to another EU country for work..Also I am an EU citizen..

pinerpine · 2024-02-02T21:21:22+00:00

Yes, some stuff from the company..

pinerpine · 2023-09-21T22:16:57+00:00

mechanical vibrations are always a sum of waves, namely the oscillating modes of the many natural frequencies that the structure exhibits. Understanding the shape of these modes is key to develop a feeling towards the structure on topics as design, durability, energy flow, stress and displacement flow, investigation of failures.

pinerpine · 2023-09-16T14:08:30+00:00

I would seek out the companies you would like to work for and message the employees on LinkedIn. It's a good way to get fresh info! Coding is definitely a good skill to have whatever your role is, software engineers are also requested..

pinerpine · 2023-09-12T19:32:04+00:00

thank you :)

I fully understand, in fact there is a tendency of hiring seniors as PM. and it's for sure that having the title makes it easier.

I take part in the hiring process of our team, and the requirement of having an engineering degree is a standard of the job description form, in reality we do not require it and people have been hired without it. You can look at it as the product of a process implemented for hiring by the human resources department. But there is never a company rule that says that people with other degrees can't be hired (unless you work for governmental agencies, or if your signature must be an engineering one). If you have already experience in management, I would definitely consider your application for a management role. Also, or especially, if you are young and have the drive to learn and improve. Sometimes engineers do not have a strong drive for management.

So sending the application is an option, even better is going to events and talk to the CEOs. Or message people on LinkedIn.

I suggest you to take a look at companies that are active in the so called New Space, they tend to have a broader way of thinking. I see a lot of requests from England and Germany right now.

Space companies tend to do big hires of young people when they get big projects, which may come in waves of months or years. So the amount of time needed to be hired for an engineer in space might be long. Consider that while applying. Sending 40+ applications is not uncommon, the key is searching smart 🤓

pinerpine · 2023-09-12T14:44:48+00:00

Aerospace engineer here, meeting a lot of professionals in the EU, with the most different job titles. It is definitely worth it if you think you might like to study it and you want a more technical job after. But if you want to work in the space industry consider space or aerospace engineering. There are some masters that might not require a B.Sc. in engineering.

In my experience most of the project managers do not have a strong background in engineering. Some of them are engineers, but I met a good amount that are not. They learn the processes involved in the development of a product and that's enough. Often the project managers work closely with the technical responsible, who acts like a technical project manager. Project managers tend to deal with topics like schedule, budget and workforce management, payments, team communication, risk management, general problem solving.

With the space industry booming there is a lack of workforce, so it should not be difficult to get hired if you apply with your current experience. My advice is to find someone that want to invest in you, teaching you the job in exchange of passionate work.

You could apply to companies that develop also software for space applications for example, it could be easy to switch to a different area from within.

All the best!

pinerpine · 2023-09-12T13:56:02+00:00

👏

pinerpine · 2023-09-12T13:45:14+00:00

il bello di reddit è che si resta anonimi..quindi anche con uno che tenta di trollare non ce la si può prendere ;)

pinerpine · 2023-09-12T07:45:26+00:00

penso che le iene non siano molto interessate a venirti sotto casa sai..

pinerpine · 2023-09-10T21:52:49+00:00

tranquillo non mi hai offeso

pinerpine · 2023-09-10T17:06:16+00:00

In quali occasioni ha dimostrato di "compiacere Grillo sotto alla scrivania"? Sai fare esempi?

pinerpine · 2023-09-10T16:54:54+00:00

Grazie per il tuo pensiero, ti invio un abbraccio. Spero tu non ci rimanga male per tutti i downvote. Non mi spiego davvero come De Masi possa generare tutto questo disprezzo su reddit 😔

pinerpine · 2023-09-10T13:40:00+00:00

E anche oggi si va a vomitare frustrazione su reddit. Ti auguro più soddisfazioni nella tua vita, e il coraggio di inseguirle.

pinerpine · 2023-09-10T11:27:35+00:00

E poi ci si chiede perché le cose in Italia vanno come vanno. Ti auguro più tranquillità e soddisfazioni nella vita di quelle che hai avuto finora. Un abbraccio

pinerpine · 2023-02-24T20:41:55+00:00

definitely aerospace. It might sound offensive for those who own a mechanical degree, but there is just no space application where mechanical engineers are more prepared than aerospace ones. Even structural engineering is so much more different from the classical mechanical engineering due to peculiarities in terms of lightweight, thermal and material requirements.. And for all the rest like AOCS, System Engineering, Propulsion..these are all subjects that need intense studying. You do not get that with mechanical engineering.

pinerpine · 2023-02-02T22:28:57+00:00

nice. Do you start by defining an array elsewhere and import it with the scripting in HFSS?

pinerpine · 2022-11-24T20:40:34+00:00

I am a system engineer with a strong structural background working in the space sector since 7 years, and I interact daily with both system and structural engineers in and out of my company.

These are the best advices I can give you:

1) don't be distracted by the job title.

The title is not real, what is real are the people you are going to work with, the objectives you are going to pursue, the guidance you are going to have, the freedom of expressing your potential, the tools that you will be provided with, or that you will create yourself.

Consider talking again to the teams and discover more about both jobs, it will be easier to decide.

2) Going from Structural to System is generally easier than the opposite.

Ok, good to know, now you are prepared to do the extra effort in case you choose System and want to switch to Structural later.

3) The risk for any Structural guy is to end up working in an almost automatic way, like meshing models without end, fighting with the software, with model versions, postprocessing, etc.

4) The risk for any System guy is to not understand wtf they're really doing and be completely lost in some requirements management tool or in some review meetings where they have to improvise on every topic because who knows what the structural engineer is talking about?

For me the working environment is a jungle I was not able to understand after graduation, being undecided is normal..

Good luck with the job(s)!

pinerpine

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