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Can you elaborate? Do you have any personal experience that makes you say this?

• engi_nerd 10y ago
  I'm not the parent, but I agree with 'math, math, and more math' as good advice. My own situation is this: I've been working as an RF telemetry and instrumentation engineer for 8 years. Time and time again, I've been able to rise above because I put in the time to understand the fundamental math underlying what we're doing, and use that understanding to troubleshoot issues. Surprisingly, most of my colleagues have not put in this level of effort and their career trajectories have suffered as a result. I would also add this: learn to program. Now, the vast majority of people here already do know how to program, but many people in the aerospace and mechanical engineering fields really don't, or don't use what knowledge they gained in school. I put in the time on the side to learn some data science and programming skills. I was able to use these skills to solve some rather tricky problems, gaining me additional recognition. I have now used this success to switch career tracks to a software engineering position. I start the new position next month, wish me luck!
  • madengr 10y ago
    Good luck with the new position. I'm also an RF guy, but do some SDR programming, mainly as a hobby, but had a job offer over it recently.
    • engi_nerd 10y ago
      In a related note, I just had a conversation with an Aerospace Engineer here who said that throughout his degree he never had to program. Now he's trying to find other employment (as this program is winding down) and all the jobs that he is seeing require some programming skills.