Hi, Skyrail. I remember seeing this last weekend, and I wanted to write a bit about it. After a busy week I’m just going back through older stuff to get caught up. Sorry this took so long. But to answer your question…
I’m currently looking for work. I’ve been at home taking care of a house for almost five years now. As for what I have done I’ve done some research involving microwave circuits, chip packaging, and antenna design. It involved a lot of paper design, computer simulating and modeling in various ways, and then verifying results with selective prototyping and testing. I’ve also spent a lot of time as a teaching assistant, managing projects with groups of students, running demos of new tools and lab techniques, and mentoring undergrads. Unfortunately a lot of it was rather specific and years ago.
So there are a lot of things I’m quite capable of doing, qualified to do, and would be really happy doing. The trick is convincing someone who’s hiring of that after I’ve been away from the workforce for so long.
Electrical engineering is really broad these days. You’ll find EEs doing all sorts of things, from R&D designing large power systems to small chips to software tools, sales, support, testing, manufacturing systems, and that’s not an exhaustive list by any means. It is a really wonderful field of study with a lot there to love.
I’d be happy to talk about this more with you if you want. Have you picked a school? Are you at a school and waiting to see if you make the cut in the specific program? How far along in your education are you?
Cheers!