>graduate with a degree in electrical engineering in 2023>dont have a job yet and willing to work minimum wage as long as its a job adjacent to my field >accept a lmao 60k salary coding job at boomercorp >all I have to show for it is a measly 50k networth and 2 years of experience in a highly saturated field >meanwhile all my peers got electrical jobs paying at least 75k>might get promoted soon and would be getting 75k which is an okay starting salary for someone with 0 years of experience but not enough feel significant anymore wtf do I do? I wanna stick it out for the possible promotion at least since that would look good on the resume but not sure where to steer things long term. Should I jump ship from coding and move to electrical? I have no electrical experience so even if I did that I’d probably be making around 75k and I’m not sure it would be quitting and moving to a new city for something that would pay the same amount. I’ve managed to keep my expenses pretty low thanks to a series of lucky circumstances and that’s why I have any money at all but making the same salary somewhere else wouldn’t allow me to replicate this circumstances that let me live like a goblin. On the other hand electrical is a more stable industry and I wouldn’t have to compete with giga autists who’ve been coding since they were 12 and browse GitHub repos for fun. I need a job that pays at least 90k to feel like I’ve made any progress 2 years after graduating..
Electrical you dumbass…coding will be done by a.i.
>>61318453Switch to a career in power engineering as soon as you can. Even if it means taking a technician or lineman job until you can find an engineering role. Your coding experience will look extremely valuable to employers and will help your resume stand out.We're bringing up 5GW data centers all over the country, plus electric cars are going to require us to 2x the capacity of the existing power grid. Power engineers are going to be in extremely high demand. And regulators aren't going to allow AI to stamp designs with a PE license any time soon.t. EE
>>61318510can a lowly compe fag like me be let in?
>>61318510I wish I stuck with my POWER engineering ambitions and taken that phd half tuition offer at university of washington or was it washington state university? can't remember anymore which one had the high rank in power systems ah well I'm satisfied where I am but what could have been...EE is still one of the hardest degrees to get right? You're pretty underpaid for a compsci the ones around where I am start at 90k these days, of course you'll be working as a contractor bitchdog for uncle sam at a major AFB but such is life under the MIC
>>61318510Hmm how would the coding experience have any positive effect? I figured it was irrelevant especially if I don’t want to take a paycut. Technicians don’t make a lot as far as I recall. Also wouldn’t I need a license to get into that?
>>61318517Possibly. Try getting a job at a company that designs/manufactures/sells power control equipment. GE, Siemens, ABB, SEL - controllers, logic devices, etc. Then you're in the power industry and can move from within it.>>61318588>Underpaid compared to computer scienceLol the computer science students aren't even getting jobs. Yes, EE is hard if you don't like math (autism is helpful). It's WSU, I went there :)>>61318666Power engineers use Python and MATLAB all the time, plus do other misc coding (like coordinating relays and writing high-level logic for substation protection). You don't need a PE license to start. You can (and should) get one once you have 4 years' experience.
>>61318731> Power engineers use Python and MATLAB all the time, plus do other misc coding (like coordinating relays and writing high-level logic for substation protection). You don't need a PE license to start. You can (and should) get one once you have 4 years' experience.Nice, thanks for the insight. Are there certain position names and keywords you’d recommend using when searching for power industry positions if I wanna look for jobs where my programming exp could give me a leg-up? I’m willing to jump ship but I’d definitely prefer a position where my 2 current experience was all for nothing
>>61318731Thanks for the advice. I've still got a semester of school left. I'm considering using up my last elective slot on a course on electromechanical energy conversion. Guess I can also grind out a project or two in Python over winter break.
>>61318453Time to become an Electrician, smart guy.
If there's ever a time to jump back to actual EE work it's now. Brush up on delta-wye and all that bullshit. Consider texas, their infrastructure is perpetually in fucking shambles.>>61318906>throw the last decent degree in existence and 2YOE away to start over from ground zero making $14/hr on a jobsite full of methed out retards, lazy spics, and spiteful boomersGorilla nigger
You are doing better than me, stop bitching retard.
>>61318453Whata crazy is even this depressing image of a wojak in a single bedroom apartment in a major metropolis who can afford: binge drinking, video game consoles, furniture is more financially successful than 95% of people in modern day are or can ever aspire to be. What was meant to be relatable to depressed aimless 20 year old males like a decade ago is now a fantasy that depressed aimless 20 year old males of today can never hope to obtain. Even the McD's job is going the way of the dodo thanks to AI order takers and robot burger flippers.
>>61318510I am skeptical on the power industry bull case. It appears to be contingent on the AI bubble not popping and continuing at its current rate in perpetuity, and EVs somehow surpassing its current meager market share by a massive amount. If those things do happen, virtually every other discipline of EE, particularly power electronics and chip design, will also have massive bullruns and pay substantially more than plain old power.Obviously, power is very stable. But why should a new grad cling to such a low-ceiling industry just for a few years of stability at the beginning of their career? Seems short-sighted.
>>61318930And I’m sure you’re doing better than many others. In any case my real life hasn’t started yet
>>61318919>>61318947What side of EE and/or position titles would you recommend? I’ve forgotten a fair bit of my EE knowledge but hoping there’s something I can compete in compared to new grads with 0 experience outside of part time jobs
>>61319195I'm over 30 you gay retard, MY real life hasn't started because I lost my "poor cuck 80k a year job" in 2020 and never found a better one. Stop being a bitch.
>>61318453work in nuclear power. i make150k. gl.
>>61318510AI is a scam though engineers will likely be in demand once this AI bullshit finally ends
>>61319211What would you prefer to do, if hypothetically the job market was booming and you could just walk into whatever?
>>61319381>AI bullshit finally endsIt's not going to "end"yes it's overhyped right now just like everything tech was in the late 90sfast forward 30 years, tech is now everywhere in the first worldai will be everywhere whether you like it or not, learn to adapt
>>61318510You guys are going to be fucked when the AI bubble bursts. Also nobody is buying electric cars anymore after the government stopped subsidizing them.
