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  • 19-03-2019 5:49pm
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    bo0li5eumx12kp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭


    I did undenominated engineering first year, and then - on an absolute whim - went for Civil.

    Huge mistake.

    But at the time, it was between civil and mechanical - and mechanical had labs 2 evenings a week - which ate into my extra curricular activities, so I went for civil.

    But now, being more in touch with, you know - the progression of humanity and direction its heading, doing something that was more computer and computer science heavy - should have been an obvious choice.

    That being said - I did 1 semester of CS in 1st year, C++ and Fortran - just like all the rest of ya'll did - and it made me hate my life;

    But you know - I think that's most people - until they get their head around it.


    So - what's it like getting a job in the electronic engineering area??

    Long hours, work places, work conditions, salaries etc??


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,177 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Not loads of jobs in Ireland and most of them looking for very senior folks and most of them are in Dublin to boot.

    Ireland doesn't have a great indigenous electronics industry. Hard to blame them because there is so much money to be made by sitting at your desk with a cup of tea while you wait for stuff to come in from Shenzhen to resell at a huge margin. Look at this crowd for example: https://www.ephcontrols.com/about-us/meet-the-team/

    A fairly sizeable team but only two that do anything technical. Too many soft jobs around. You can make decent money apparently if you have 5-7 years designing FPGAs for RF stuff but entry level jobs for that kind of thing are almost non existent


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