<p>transfer to a state university soon, i feel like i learn nothing productive for the industries. i just learn some book’s formulas and theories that have little to do with the real world. i dont feel anything remotely closed to be an engineer or even to be a technician. even if i did graduated with a engineer degree,electrical engineer as for me,i will have little chance to be employed with an engineer job. i have friends and families have solid GPA and went to top tier engineer school but most of them end up working a job have to do nothing with engineer with wage $13/hr.
for examples:
1, a friend who went to UC Berkeley for engineer(dont remember which engineer field) and graduated with 3.7GPA but after trying for almost a year and end up working in some paper company that paid around $10/hr.
2, another friend of a friend who also went to UC Berkeley for Civil Engineer(i think) and graduated with good GPA(cant remember the specific). wondering around for engineer job about half a year and end up go back to her family and working some part time job.
3,another friend who major in EE with Power based, he went to a state university that ranking decent in engineer program. graduated with around 3.3 GPA with like one internship or so. guess what happens next? same thing! cant get an engineer job and end up working for comcast as a technician who the one install wires in people’s home.
4, this one is personal, my brother! he also graduated from a state university with 3.6 GPA Electrical engineer-power. while he was in college, he tried to get an internship over dozen times but no one offer him anything. once he graduated, trying over a year with sending ~100 resumes with luckily few interviews but once again, no job offer. now he just sit back at home and playing video games. </p>
<p>on internships, it is hard as to get the career itself. i look up my soon-to-be university’s engineer resumes with most of them ~3.5GPA with solid real field experience; even a handful of them already have a Master degree who competed for the exact position as the one who do not have. honestly, my GPA is not even that high(sub 3.0) and with zero experience so far. i feel like im going to a warzone with a stick whereas everyone using assault rifles. funny thing is our government and companies are whining over “shortage” of engineer in USA so they decide to increase the cap H1B visa to 180K. why is this like this nowadays? arent engineer easier to find jobs than most majors?
note: i didnt really proof read this yet so it might sound chopping and confusing; im just depressing to read it again.</p>