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66 - Why Engineers Hate Their Major; Egos and Memorization in College; Too Old for a Junior Role?

66 - Why Engineers Hate Their Major; Egos and Memorization in College; Too Old for a Junior Role?

Update: 2024-10-13
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Listen to this episode if you: are an early career engineer, are contemplating a career change, or just like engineering career stories.


This Week in LinkedIn Lunatics:


⁠⁠1. How absurd is this? (entry level engineering salary of $35k)


College Questions


⁠⁠1. Why do so many engineers seem to hate their major?


2. Ego (in engineering students in college)


3. Today my pre-med friends argued that you can get through engineering through memory alone


4. What did you do to rectify the mistake of getting a BSME?


5. Do you think the average person could get through engineering school?


Career Questions


⁠⁠1. Is majoring in engineering a good investment right now?


2. Will I be too old to get a junior engineering role?


3. Help me understand T&M contracts


4. As a manager of a fully remote IT team what were your strategies on pushing out a team member under you?


5. How to not sound like a total idiot when hiring a civil engineering firm?


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66 - Why Engineers Hate Their Major; Egos and Memorization in College; Too Old for a Junior Role?

66 - Why Engineers Hate Their Major; Egos and Memorization in College; Too Old for a Junior Role?

Daniel Dahlinger