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On June 24 2011 23:25 tomyoru wrote:
plus, if you quit, what would you be doing this summer?
Lazing around at home, not getting valuable stuff for your resume?
I'd rather do what your internship is than work at a fast food place: working 10-12 hour days, 7 days a week, always standing, making shitty food for angry fat people. Especially horrible if you do what I did and work at a place where chili is the main product served, it gets everywhere and you reek of it by the time you are done
Wow you didn't even read the OP. Also, nobody in fast food works "10-12 hour days, 7 days a week". In my experience you have a hard time even getting your 40 hours a week because they don't want to risk having you pay you overtime if you stay late for a 41st hour.
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On June 24 2011 22:27 Sm3agol wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2011 21:58 ComaDose wrote:
I'm an engineering student too.
We are "better than this crap".
We paid so much money and did the courses no one else did so we wouldn't be laborers.
We find solutions to problems.
The orientation will be worth it tho just stick it out.
Think of it like initiation.
The extra $5 an hour wont cover rent for having to move away. That doesn't mean that you instantly know how to do anything real world. I am constantly having to revise engineer's drawings because half of them don't know how anything real world looks or works like. You shouldn't be common laborers, no, that's why you went to school. But that doesn't mean you should instantly have job solving real world problems, with no experience in the actual system or job you are performing, because you have no experience with it other than theoretical. I say real world, and maybe you don't understand, because you're still a student, and think the exercises/projects they have you do are "real world". Hint: they are not.
Yeah one defiantly needs to know how to do those things.
I should not have used "courses" to summarize learning oriented activities.
There is a physical aspect to every project.
I poorly conveyed my point that engineers should not be on a soldering line 9-5 till they retire.
I was reacting to some posts having a "think your better than us" attitude.
I make test boards 9-5 till September.
Its not what i hope to make a career doing.
but I'm not complaining either.
I think of it like initiation.
Just like i think you are recommending she do,
which was also my recommendation too.
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On June 25 2011 00:44 ComaDose wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2011 22:27 Sm3agol wrote:On June 24 2011 21:58 ComaDose wrote:
I'm an engineering student too.
We are "better than this crap".
We paid so much money and did the courses no one else did so we wouldn't be laborers.
We find solutions to problems.
The orientation will be worth it tho just stick it out.
Think of it like initiation.
The extra $5 an hour wont cover rent for having to move away. That doesn't mean that you instantly know how to do anything real world. I am constantly having to revise engineer's drawings because half of them don't know how anything real world looks or works like. You shouldn't be common laborers, no, that's why you went to school. But that doesn't mean you should instantly have job solving real world problems, with no experience in the actual system or job you are performing, because you have no experience with it other than theoretical. I say real world, and maybe you don't understand, because you're still a student, and think the exercises/projects they have you do are "real world". Hint: they are not. Yeah one defiantly needs to know how to do those things. I should not have used "courses" to summarize learning oriented activities. There is a physical aspect to every project. I poorly conveyed my point that engineers should not be on a soldering line 9-5 till they retire. I was reacting to some posts having a "think your better than us" attitude. I make test boards 9-5 till September. Its not what i hope to make a career doing. but I'm not complaining either. I think of it like initiation. Just like i think you are recommending she do, which was also my recommendation too.
was this meant to be a poem?
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On June 23 2011 11:56 dazed wrote:
I'm surprised at all these responses that say to suck it up. If the job ain't making you happy, its simply not worth it. Life is so short and spending half the day being miserable isn't living.
The old job seems like a great solution. Why are you so apprehensive about moving and living on your own? You can't live at home with your parents your whole life, might as well start now. The best thing to ever happen to me was moving out of my parents and being on my own.
Its an internship ie short term. I think he should suck it up too and after the two weeks see what its like. Short term pain long term gain
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Apparently Riku isn't another Zia. So, some of you guys might want to address her as a... her. Gee golly, that was redundant. ._.
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I think you should stick with it for at least the orientation period, if you're still stuck doing manual labour after the orientation period then you should start asking questions and seeing whether you will be transferred to more relevant work that actually makes use of your engineering skills.
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On June 24 2011 14:17 Gummy wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2011 13:43 BroOd wrote:On June 24 2011 08:51 Riku wrote:On June 24 2011 07:17 Coramoor wrote:
i agree with chill's latest post 100%, the sense of entitlement that a lot of engineering students display is amazingly pathetic
it's 80 hours plus at most 20 hours of commute to do shit you don't want to do, so it's at most 100 hours of your life, when you've already stated that spending time with your parents and cats are an important facet of the summer, i seriously pity any company that hires you if that's your attitude.
Also i fail to remotely see how you were lied to and misled, i'm sure they told you there would be a 2 week orientation, or an 80 hour orientation, or something like that.
I just wrote a 10 page report and e-mailed it to my boss. I'm not a slacker, I just want to fix the problems without wasting time. You don't mean you mailed him a 10 page report about your working situation... right? She means that as part of his job he was required to write a 8 page report. He went above and beyond the call of duty and wrote an extra 2 fucking pages to prove "Hell, I'm the best damn intern you ever gonna see, so you better start putting me to good use."
I was not required, asked to or even had a suggestion offered to me to write anything. I know what the project i'm going to be working on is about, so I used the information and data I collected during the first two days at my job, as well as significant background research I did on their methods to purpose an initial approach of the problem and a brief overview of possible issues causing it.
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