A year ago, I got a mechanical engineering degree. Shortly after I moved back in with my parents, and told them I had been applying for jobs with no luck. They said it’s fine, just keep applying for as long as it takes.
I spent two months there, I never applied for one job. I kept thinking, “why would anyone pay me to be an engineer? I know fucking nothing, I can’t even do basic maintenance tasks or use tools.” So I never applied to anything. I told them I never got any responses, and I could see the disappointmt in their eyes.
I moved out, got a job in a factory and have never looked back. The years I spent in college feel surreal now, I will never use my degree. I don’t even care either, I’m just waiting for my life to end. I’m a worthless failure in every imaginable way.
Yes, but you overpaid for an education and made the school, education lobbyists, and members of congress that much wealthier
Cooper Torres
>“why would anyone pay me to be an engineer? I know fucking nothing, I can’t even do basic maintenance tasks or use tools.” How the hell do you get a mechanical engineering degree and not learn anything? I haven't heard that one person Wing through engineering. Also my friend is an engineer and his job is more business-related then it is engineering
Joshua Bailey
>lying for attention on the internet You know what to do OP.
Christian Richardson
lmao sucks to be you
Jack Turner
You bitch like a woman holy shit
Isaiah Morgan
I have a masters in philosophy (fucking kek) and I work in a factory. Do what you want.
Hunter Walker
Mechanical engineers don't do maintenance tasks or use tools. If you had a mechanical engineering degree you would know that you lying piece of shit.
Sebastian Johnson
I'm basically in the same boat. I'm fucking stupid as shit and I hate myself. Only my family doesn't see it. See you in hell, user.
Liam Sanders
its alright OP 99% of the human population will never amount to anything, ever read a history book? we don't remember all the normies who existed, even the people calling you a loser will die and in 100 years no one will care they ever existed, including the descendants of their own bloodlines.
Charles Hill
Just be a fucking NEET and stop shitting the board up with your bitching you woman
I learned how to solve all the problems in the books, I could find the velocity and acceleration of a specific point on a mechanism, I could tell you how wide a pipe needed to be to maintain x velocity at y location with a fluid, I could tell you what the bending moment is on a beam at a certain location under some given loading conditions, I solved all the boom problems and did well on the tests. But then I realized I have absolutely no practical knowledge, I don’t actually know jack shit shit outside of those simple little idealized book problems. So I didn’t apply, there was no reason for me to believe I would ever get hired, I had zero actual experience in anything practical.
11 dollars an hour, thankfully I don’t have student loans due to scholarships
You should apply to something I’m engineering. You’ll learn as you go. GE is always hiring mechanical engineers. I know someone who works there and if he can do it I know someone with your background can. I believe you can do it.
Jace Parker
You realize employers know that when they are looking for new applicants right?
Wyatt Rodriguez
>I learned how to solve all the problems in the books, I could find the velocity and acceleration of a specific point on a mechanism, I could tell you how wide a pipe needed to be to maintain x velocity at y location with a fluid, I could tell you what the bending moment is on a beam at a certain location under some given loading conditions, I solved all the boom problems and did well on the tests. But then I realized I have absolutely no practical knowledge, I don’t actually know jack shit shit outside of those simple little idealized book problems. So I didn’t apply, there was no reason for me to believe I would ever get hired, I had zero actual experience in anything practical.
They know that. Most jobs are highly specific that may touch upon one aspect of one classes lesson. They know they will have to train you, that's why there are entry level jobs. Internships help a lot but for engineering there would still be places that would've taken on someone like you - and very well may still take you on a year out. Just say you wanted a ground level perspective of engineering or something at your factory job, or that you took that job because you had to live at home to care for an invalid parent or something.
Eli Sanchez
You could've taken an internship user. They're designed for people like you.
