I cannot get a job in Electrical Engineering ...rant

Or take a different approach...

Instead of targetting a specific job, take a good look around at various companies that do stuff you might find interesting. Then do your best to get a foot in the door doing just about anything that makes you a full-time employee at that specific company. Transfers within a company are much easier than coming in from the outside - the folks have a chance to get to know you and your work habits, while you have a chance to learn the internal culture and various quirks specific to that corporation. You can also get to know folks in the department you want to move into and ask about upcoming opportunities before they are posted or advertised.

Guess it's kinda like what Electrophil wrote

[Seraph]

what they said

[Electrophil]

Originally Posted by Bipa

Or take a different approach...

Instead of targetting a specific job, take a good look around at various companies that do stuff you might find interesting. Then do your best to get a foot in the door doing just about anything that makes you a full-time employee at that specific company. Transfers within a company are much easier than coming in from the outside - the folks have a chance to get to know you and your work habits, while you have a chance to learn the internal culture and various quirks specific to that corporation. You can also get to know folks in the department you want to move into and ask about upcoming opportunities before they are posted or advertised.

Guess it's kinda like what Electrophil wrote

This made me think of something else. Go apply at every employment service out there that are "employer paid". These days, most are employer paid anyway.

These guys pull in about 7K to place an engineer depending on the position. AppleOne out here in Vegas gets $11,500 for every engineer that is willing to relocate to......ready? to Phoenix to draw transistors. You might say they are uhhhh.....motivated.... to get you placed. Also consider engineering sales. Big dollar position that with the right personality, doesn't require engineering experience. Warning though.... Once you step on that plank, that's where you will stay.

[NapaBavarian]

Originally Posted by Landshark

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EE degree, working as a tech for Verizon making more money than an engineer.

Verizon? You b@stard! Verizon is evil!

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by NapaBavarian

Verizon? You b@stard! Verizon is evil!

that's why they hired me. i scored 100% on the Evil Test.

[Electrophil]

Originally Posted by Landshark

that's why they hired me. i scored 100% on the Evil Test.

Yes..... Yes I DO remember interviewing you!

[Noir]

Originally Posted by Landshark

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EE degree, working as a tech in Verizon commercials making more money than an engineer.

f1xx0rs, you sure do look like a sk8er

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Noir

f1xx0rs, you sure do look like a sk8er

i want to hit that guy with a hammer.



repeatedly.

[Noir]

Originally Posted by Landshark

i want to hit that guy with a hammer.



repeatedly.

why would you beat yourself repeatedly?

nevermind, we know you already do to pictures of mares.

[Electrophil]

Originally Posted by Landshark

i want to hit that guy with a hammer.



repeatedly.

What we never hear is the other side of that conversation. I have a feeling they are saying "What?? Dude your breaking up. Are you there??"

[Seraph]

Verizon does have great coverage in IL and FL. I switched to Cingular and I am getting crappy coverage in my own house. Outside is spotty too.

[Noir]

Verizon's got the best coverage handsdown. I don't care what you people say.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by Noir

Verizon's got the best coverage handsdown. I don't care what you people say.

you're welcome. just doin' mah job.


i want teh fiber to my house! hurry the *** up, Verizon!!!

[Red SVX 92]

Verizon's coverage sucks...

in the 1 block that I live in...

in the middle of LA...

and nowhere else...

How do you guys have such great service everywhere EXCEPT the 200 sq. ft. that I call my living space?

<-- wishes he could go back to Verizon

[LarryIII]

Here are some engineering conversions that shoud bring a smile to you faces.
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Handy MECHANICAL ENGINEERING conversions

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1bananosecond
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
10 rations: 1 decoration
100 rations: 1 C-ration
2 monograms: 1 diagram
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

Hope you all enjoyed these.